Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s

(github.com)

39 points | by marcobambini 4 hours ago

5 comments

  • pja 57 minutes ago
    That README hits all my “this is authored by an LLM” instincts. I presume the codebase is also written by an LLM?
    • gruez 52 minutes ago
      >Contributors

      >...

      >claude

      You don't need to presume. If someone is so lazy that they tell claude to commit their code (ie. they're too lazy to run git commit themselves), the chances they reviewed the code is slim.

      • danirod 43 minutes ago
        To be fair, I appreciate when they are so upfront about who wrote the code without requiring further heuristics, so I encourage this behavior.
        • bensyverson 23 minutes ago
          Yes, I do this all the time, and also check in the co-authored project plans which drove the commits. For a project that is transparently only possible due to agentic coding, I don't see any reason to conceal the methods.
      • simonw 40 minutes ago
        Honestly, Claude writes better commit messages than most people.

        Personally I've mostly given in to letting it commit for me now, though I do occasionally take over and hand-write the messages if it's a particularly important concept and Claude's is too verbose.

        Codex/GPT-x defaults to one-line commit messages, which are too short. Claude likes to write several paragraphs, which is usually too long.

        If you tell it how to commit properly once per session it will stick with your standards for the rest of that session, and you can put that in AGENTS.md if you can be bothered to.

      • k8sToGo 45 minutes ago
        Why do you say lazy? maybe they are ok with people seeing it is claude?
    • marcobambini 26 minutes ago
      I wrote tons of software, even a programming language by hand https://github.com/marcobambini/gravity.

      I'm using my skills to orchestrate LLMs and agents, and I can write better code much faster. As developers, we can choose to adapt to new technologies or become extinct.

    • cyanydeez 3 minutes ago
      do people think these projects related to LLMs are ever going to be in anyway a pure human endevour?

      How bout we make a new rule: only complain about LLM writing when the product as zero relevents to use with LLMs.

  • jpecar 32 minutes ago
    Where can this 1tb k3.waste be downloaded?
    • marcobambini 29 minutes ago
      It is not yet available, the only way is to download the official Kimi K3 model and then convert it:

      # 1. preflight: reachable? how big? does it fit? tools/fetch_weights.sh --dest /Volumes/staging/k3 --dry-run

      # 2. download — resumable, safe to kill, safe to re-run tools/fetch_weights.sh --dest /Volumes/staging/k3

      # 3. convert into a container uv run --with torch --with safetensors python tools/convert.py \ --src /Volumes/staging/k3 \ --out ~/models/k3.waste --jobs 3

  • cjbprime 1 hour ago
    Does it not use Metal, on macOS? Would it be faster if it did?
    • marcobambini 31 minutes ago
      We tried to use Metal, but for that specific project it was slower than just using NEON ARM optimizations. It is all documented in the docs.
    • ashivkum 55 minutes ago
      [dead]
  • logicallee 22 minutes ago
    Interesting project. The headline number (29 GB of RAM) is for 4k context.

    From what I've read elsewhere, Kimi K3 is quite verbose in its thinking. At the quoted rate, it would generate only a total of 1.8k tokens in 1 hour. Is that enough for it to get any thinking done and produce output on more complicated prompts?