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Kimi K3 shrinks to CPU scale; Astra sharpens math
Aug 2, 2026SOURCE: essamamdani.com
SO WHAT
The window is opening on a world where power shifts from model size to deployable access, and the old gatekeepers may lose their chokehold.
Tracker notes Kimi K3 weights, Astra math gains, and a C implementation that runs a 2.78-trillion-parameter model on one CPU with 8GB RAM. The signal is the inversion: frontier capability is starting to fit inside ordinary hardware.
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