Under the Hood: Serving Kimi K3

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DigitalOcean launched Kimi K3 on day 0. It’s already one of the most popular models on the platform and across the market: second most likes on Hugging Face, sixth most traffic on OpenCode. Getting a model this size running well on day zero took real work across several teams. Thanks to Moonshot AI, Inferact, RadixArk, NVIDIA, and AMD for the help getting there. Standing up a new model,…

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