Morning Edition · Monday, August 3, 2026Published at 1:38 AM EDT · New York
A 6,000-Line C Engine Claims to Run the Full Kimi K3 Weights on a 64-Gigabyte Laptop
The method is streaming a roughly one-terabyte model from a solid-state drive (SSD) rather than holding it in memory, and the open question is throughput, not whether it loads.
A Russian-language technical post described a project called WASTE from SQLite AI, a roughly 6,000-line C engine that runs Moonshot's Kimi K3 with no BLAS, no CUDA, and no Python in the runtime. After the weights are converted from safetens…
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