China Just Open Sourced a 2.8 Trillion Parameter Model

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    Nick Saraev and Jack Roberts discuss a reported 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi release and its mixture-of-experts design. They distinguish total parameters from those active for each token, rather than treating the model's headline size as its per-token workload.

    Nick Saraev and Jack Roberts emphasize that enormous open-weight models are not automatically practical on ordinary laptops. Hosted access and enterprise infrastructure may broaden their usefulness, but the discussion offers estimates rather than a verified deployment cost.

    Nick Saraev and Jack Roberts do not establish the model's commercial licensing terms. The release is discussed as open weights, without assuming that downloadable weights imply unrestricted open-source rights or free commercial use.

    Nick Saraev and Jack Roberts connect model competition with memory, chips and vendor financing. Their discussion includes corrected figures and unsettled reports, so the infrastructure implications are separated from claims of completed financial arrangements.

    Nick Saraev and Jack Roberts finish by discussing AI credentials and open versus closed model risks. They favor assessing capabilities, distribution and safeguards rather than assuming one release model is inherently safe or dangerous.

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    Nick Saraev in blue and Jack Roberts in navy flank the blue and white headline 'OPEN WEIGHTS, HUGE COMPUTE' on black. Framed in blue with WWW.ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE.VIDEO, 27 July 2026 and duration 30m 36s.

    Nick Saraev and Jack Roberts discuss Kimi's large open-weight release while separating model access from licensing rights and the hardware needed to run it.