Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3 License With Revenue Thresholds
License allows free non-commercial access but requires separate deals above revenue thresholds.
TLDR
Moonshot AI published the Kimi K3 license for its model weights and code. The MIT-inspired terms permit free non-commercial use while requiring companies exceeding $20M/yr to negotiate separate commercial deals. Display of Kimi K3 is required for entities above 100M users or $20M/mo revenue. Researchers described the terms as a middle ground between open and restricted models, noting possible effects on large-scale inference hosting and fine-tuning integrations.
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M.G. Siegler@mgsieglerAh yes, our old favorite variant of open: “open”. https://twitter.com/natolambert/status/2081760901020201086
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XL xlr8harder@xlr8harderI prefer fully open licenses, but this seems like a reasonable middle ground. Only major restriction is if you're going to compete with them on inference at large scale. Thank you, Moonshot! https://twitter.com/natolambert/status/2081760901020201086
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NL Nathan Lambert@natolambertGuys we made it, the best timeline, model license tweets go VIRAL. My moment. https://twitter.com/natolambert/status/2081760901020201086
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RO rohit@krishnanrohitKimi's new license is quite interesting. Some restrictions on what model hosting companies can do with it ...
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XL xlr8harder@xlr8harderPeople who care primarily about access and freedom rather than open source ideology will see this as a totally reasonable license. Ideological open source purists will hate it. https://twitter.com/petergostev/status/2081762420947562928
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YJ You Jiacheng@YouJiachengto be precise, it says you can't use it without a separate agreement if your revenue >$20M/yr and you run a MaaS. So, even you want to use K3 in end user products, as long as you run a MaaS (irrelevant to K3), you still need a separate agreement.…
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