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How to build a day-0 API for Kimi K3
Baseten · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- Baseten launched day-zero API support for Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open model with vision capabilities and 1M-token context window.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building production AI applications need this when deploying frontier-scale open models that require specialized inference infrastructure and optimization.
- Watch out
- Kimi K3's massive scale demands eight GB300 GPUs per instance and novel architectural features like sparse experts and KDA attention, limiting deployment flexibility.
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Who else ran this
- Kimi K3 on Fireworks: Frontier Intelligence You Can OwnFireworks AI
- Kimi K3: Open Frontier IntelligencearXiv cs.AI
- Kimi K3: The Complete Developer GuideTogether AI
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The patterns behind this
- Agentic Context Engineering (Evolving Playbook)
- Context Editing & Tool-Result Clearing
- Context Window Management UI
Each one covers how the technique works, when it earns its cost, and where it breaks.
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