Is Kimi K3 Open Source? Weights, License, and How to Call It
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Kimi K3 ships public weights under Moonshot AI's own Kimi K3 License, which is not an OSI-approved open-source license.
This post explains the difference, what the license grants and requires, what the checkpoint contains, and how to call the model on OpenRouter with reasoning, vision, and tool calling.
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