AI & Machine Learning
July 31, 2026Kimi K3 open weights: the EU self-hosting reality check
Moonshot AI published Kimi K3's open weights on 26 July 2026: a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with a 1M-token context window, shipped in MXFP4 under a custom licence that gates large-scale commercial inference. We work through the licence terms, the GPU memory and cost math for serving it in an EU Azure region, and a decision framework for choosing between self-hosting, a managed API and a smaller single-node open model.
Kimi K3
Moonshot AI
Open Weights
Self-Hosting
LLM Licensing
Azure ND-series
EU AI Act
Data Residency
GPU Costs
By Technspire Team