LocalClaw/LLM/Kimi Linear 48B-A3B Instruct
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Kimi Linear 48B-A3B Instruct

Catalogue summary: Moonshot AI efficient Kimi model with linear-attention style architecture and 3B active parameters. Strong long-context, reasoning and coding signal. MIT licensed.

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Public model cardNo public GGUF verified48B (3B active, MoE)2025-12
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LocalClaw verified a public model card for Kimi Linear 48B-A3B Instruct on 2026-09-07, but no public GGUF file in that repository. The catalogue RAM and quantization fields are estimates, not a verified install path.

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Public model card (no GGUF file verified 2026-09-07): moonshotai/Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct
chatcodereasoningpowermoelong-context

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Catalogue record

  • Family: kimi
  • Parameters: 48B (3B active, MoE)
  • Recommended quantization: Q4_K_M
  • Catalogue minimum RAM: 48 GB
  • Catalogue model size: 28 GB
  • Tags: chat, code, reasoning, power, moe, long-context

Practical limits

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  • Speed and memory use vary by quantization, backend, context length and system headroom.
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Catalogue tags

  • chat
  • code
  • reasoning
  • power
  • moe
  • long-context

Capability profile

Repository catalogue ratings used by LocalClaw's editorial rubric. They are not a standardized third-party benchmark.

speed
6
quality
8
coding
8
reasoning
8

Technical notes

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Related catalogue entries

Linked mechanically by family, shared tags and nearby RAM tier; this is not a quality ranking.

LongCat-Flash-Lite 68.5B (3-4.5B active, MoE)Qwen3-Coder-Next 80B (3B active, MoE)Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B 30B (3B active, MoE)Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B 35B (3B active, MoE)Laguna XS 2.1 33B (3B active, MoE)LLM-jp-4 33B Thinking 33BPhi-3.5 MoE Instruct 42B (6.6B active, MoE)Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B 35B (3B active, MoE)

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