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    moonshotai/kimi-k3

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    Prototype

    Start building with a free API endpoint.
    import requests
    
    invoke_url = "https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1/chat/completions"
    stream = True
    
    headers = {
        "Authorization": "Bearer $NVIDIA_API_KEY",
        "Accept": "text/event-stream" if stream else "application/json",
    }
    
    payload = {
      "messages": [
        {
          "role": "user",
          "content": [
            {
              "type": "text",
              "text": "What is in this image?"
            },
            {
              "type": "image_url",
              "image_url": {
                "url": "https://assets.ngc.nvidia.com/products/api-catalog/phi-3-5-vision/example1b.jpg"
              }
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "model": "moonshotai/kimi-k3",
      "max_tokens": 16384,
      "seed": 0,
      "stream": stream,
      "temperature": 1,
      "reasoning_effort": "max"
    }
    
    response = requests.post(invoke_url, headers=headers, json=payload, stream=stream)
    if stream:
        for line in response.iter_lines():
            if line:
                print(line.decode("utf-8"))
    else:
        print(response.json())

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    Specifications

    ~2.8T hybrid KDA+MLA multimodal MoE for long-horizon coding, agentic tool use, and image understanding.

    • Mixture-of-Experts
    • Multimodal
    • Reasoning
    • Image-to-Text
    Provider
    Moonshotai
    Last Modified
    1 day ago
    Context Length
    1M
    Parameters
    2.8T
    Input Modalities
    Text, Image
    Output Modalities
    Text

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