Specification

Release date: 9 Apr 2025
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 22 min agomedium
Openness: open-weights
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 1 h agomedium
License: mit
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 22 min agomedium
Architecture: KimiVLForConditionalGeneration
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 22 min agomedium
Parameters: 16.4B
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 1 h agomedium
Active parameters: 3B
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 22 min agomedium
Base model: moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 22 min agomedium
File size: 32.8 GB
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 22 min agomedium
Hugging Face repo: moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 1 h agomedium
Pipeline tag: image-text-to-text
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 1 h agomedium
Model card: huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 1 h agomedium
Downloads: 16,844
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 22 min agomedium
Likes: 453
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 22 min agomedium
Gated: No
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 22 min agomedium
Last modified: 2026-01-30T04:52:57+00:00
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 1 h agomedium
Library name: transformers
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 22 min agomedium
Downloads all time: 1,291,499
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 22 min agomedium
Model type: kimi_vl
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 22 min agomedium
Tags: transformers, safetensors, kimi_vl, feature-extraction, image-text-to-text, custom_code
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 22 min agomedium
Weights dtype: BF16
Source:Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2observed 22 min agomedium

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Provenance

Attributed facts

20

Source tiers

T220

Freshest observation

22 min ago

Conflicts

None

Modalities

Modalities unavailable.

Capabilities

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Reasoning
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Vision
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Audio
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Fine-tuning available
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No structured attributes yet.

No benchmark results recorded

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Current prices

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Price history

Estimated

Memory need = bytes per parameter (4-bit ≈ 0.5 × 1.15 overhead, 8-bit 1.0, fp16 2.0) + a KV-cache allowance. Not a measurement.

Estimated hardware fit
Hardware	Quantization	Memory	Est. need	Fits
Apple M3 Ultra	4bit	—	9.9 GB	Yes
AMD Instinct MI325X	4bit	256 GB	9.9 GB	Yes
AMD Instinct MI300X	4bit	192 GB	9.9 GB	Yes
Apple M2 Ultra	4bit	—	9.9 GB	Yes
NVIDIA B200	4bit	180 GB	9.9 GB	Yes
NVIDIA H200	4bit	141 GB	9.9 GB	Yes
Apple M1 Ultra	4bit	—	9.9 GB	Yes
Apple M3 Max	4bit	—	9.9 GB	Yes
Apple M4 Max	4bit	—	9.9 GB	Yes
NVIDIA DGX Spark	4bit	128 GB	9.9 GB	Yes
Apple M2 Max	4bit	—	9.9 GB	Yes
NVIDIA A100 80GB	4bit	80 GB	9.9 GB	Yes
NVIDIA H100 SXM	4bit	80 GB	9.9 GB	Yes
Apple M1 Max	4bit	—	9.9 GB	Yes
Apple M4 Pro	4bit	—	9.9 GB	Yes
Apple M3 Pro	4bit	—	9.9 GB	Yes
Apple M1 Pro	4bit	—	9.9 GB	Yes
Apple M2 Pro	4bit	—	9.9 GB	Yes
Apple M4	4bit	—	9.9 GB	Yes
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090	4bit	32 GB	9.9 GB	Yes
Apple M2	4bit	—	9.9 GB	Yes
Apple M3	4bit	—	9.9 GB	Yes
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090	4bit	24 GB	9.9 GB	Yes
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090	4bit	24 GB	9.9 GB	Yes
Apple M1	4bit	—	9.9 GB	Yes

Ancestors 2

Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct16.4B
Moonlight-16B-A3B16B

This model

Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking

16.4B params

Quantizations 0

None recorded.

Descendants 0

None recorded.

Papers 1

arXiv:2504.07491Active
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Repositories 0

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Claim history · Last modified

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Last modifiedlast_modified1

Claim history for Last modified
Value	Valid from → to	Status	Source	Confidence	Extractor
2026-01-30T04:52:57+00:00	11 Sept 2026 21:11 UTC → current	current	Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)T2	medium	deterministic

Claims are temporal and append-only: a new observation closes the previous claim (valid_to) instead of overwriting it. Conflicting claims from different sources are kept side by side and flagged — never averaged. Methodology →

11 Sept 2026
New modelModelKimi-VL-A3B-ThinkingMoonshot AI
New model: Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking (Moonshot AI)
huggingface
huggingface.co

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Source documents
Source	Document	Type	Tier	Last observed	Snapshots
Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)	huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking	model_page	T2· Quality secondary	20 min ago	1
Hugging Face Hub (public pages, model cards, papers)	huggingface.co/models?author=moonshotai&p=0&sort=downloads	listing	T2· Quality secondary	58 min ago	2

Tier 1 = official/primary, 2 = quality secondary, 3 = community, 4 = unverified. Every snapshot is archived; see all sources and the methodology.