Kimi K3 License

Image-Text-to-Text

Transformers

Safetensors

kimi_k3

feature-extraction

compressed-tensors

custom_code

Instructions to use moonshotai/Kimi-K3 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

• Libraries TransformersHow to use moonshotai/Kimi-K3 with Transformers:

from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="moonshotai/Kimi-K3", trust_remote_code=True)
python
from transformers import AutoModel
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("moonshotai/Kimi-K3", trust_remote_code=True, device_map="auto")

• Notebooks Google ColabKaggle- Local Apps Settings vLLMHow to use moonshotai/Kimi-K3 with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

pip install vllm
vllm serve "moonshotai/Kimi-K3"
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "moonshotai/Kimi-K3",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3

SGLangHow to use moonshotai/Kimi-K3 with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

pip install sglang
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "moonshotai/Kimi-K3" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "moonshotai/Kimi-K3",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "moonshotai/Kimi-K3" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "moonshotai/Kimi-K3",
		"prompt": "Once upon a time,",
		"max_tokens": 512,
		"temperature": 0.5
	}'

Docker Model RunnerHow to use moonshotai/Kimi-K3 with Docker Model Runner:

docker model run hf.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3

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