{
  "id": 548061,
  "title": "Can a Mac mini run Kimi K3? I did the memory math",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/can-a-mac-mini-run-kimi-k3-i-did-the-memory-math",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-11T08:11:18.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/tyson_cung/can-a-mac-mini-run-kimi-k3-i-did-the-memory-math-4bp3"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}