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  "Announced": "July 17, 2026",
  "Released": "Product and API at announcement; weights stated for release by July 27, 2026",
  "Architecture": "MoE Transformer: Kimi Delta Attention (KDA), Attention Residuals, Stable LatentMoE; MXFP4 weights with MXFP8 activations",
  "Parameters": "2.8 trillion total",
  "Active parameters": "16 of 896 experts per token",
  "Context window": "1 million tokens",
  "Modalities": "Text and native vision in → text out",
  "Post-training": "RLVR-family reasoning RL",
  "License / access": "Kimi products and API; open weights announced",
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