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They will release the full weights by 7/27 along with support in vLLM.

Source: their release blog on WeChat. https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/V4xhEIy8xDXSMDPrPkmUAQ

>We are currently working closely with our inference partners and open-source maintainers to align the technical details and ensure the model can be reliably deployed across the ecosystem. The full model weights will be released by July 27, 2026. Further details regarding the architecture, training, and evaluation will be released with the Kimi K3 technical report.

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11 days is a long time. It does not take that long to implement inference at providers. In my opinion, seems like they're being pre-emptively cautious about government intervention/review

Actually it does for a massive model, serving it correctly is not easy.

I believe Kimi also does some sort of Q&A and eval for day 0 partners, since early on a long of inference providers just weren’t running their models properly.

Eh, Minimax M2.7 also took a similar amount of time (actually longer) between availability and weights release.

I'm so glad to be wrong!

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