Can a Mac mini run Kimi K3? I did the memory math
I wanted the answer to be yes. I have a Mac mini, Kimi K3 is free and open, and "run a frontier model on a $1,400 box" is the kind of result I would love to report. The memory math says no, and it is not close. Here is the arithmetic, and what I run instead. Kimi K3 is bigger than "big" Kimi K3 is a mixture-of-experts model with 2.81 trillion parameters , activating 16 of 896 experts per token.…
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