# FareedKhan-dev/kimi-k3-in-c

> A portable C99 inference engine that runs the 2.78-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model on a single CPU within 8.24 GB of RAM, with no BLAS, framework, or GPU. The model streams from disk, and memory only affects speed.

- Magnitude: 1.7 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 9,221 total · +1 star measured 2026-10-29, 00:09–04:22 UTC, ≈ 14 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Language models · Language: C · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-08-01 · Last push: 2026-10-02
- GitHub: https://github.com/FareedKhan-dev/kimi-k3-in-c · Homepage: https://medium.com/@fareedkhandev/building-kimi-k3-in-c-to-run-a-2-8t-model-on-consumer-hardware-a5792cbf3b59 · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/FareedKhan-dev/kimi-k3-in-c

## Useful for

- Run text generation with the base Kimi K3 model on an 8 GB RAM laptop
- Compare inference speed across memory budgets using the laptop, desktop, and workstation presets
- Verify identical output tokens between incremental mode and full prefix recompute

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-29 (UTC), 00:09–04:22: 9220 → 9221 stars (+1). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +14 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Top new repositories in the last 4 months: #67.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1,506
- Issues and pull requests: 86
- Watchers: 81
- Average over the last week: 12 per day
- Usual pace: 22 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v1.1.0 (2026-10-02)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-30 … 2026-10-29: 15, 20, 23, 22, 15, 19, 29, 14, 15, 21, 12, 40, 14, 18, 16, 11, 19, 16, 15, 16, 19, 17, 17, 11, 10, 11, 9, 12, 18, 1

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

10-16 1.7, 10-17 1.8, 10-18 1.7, 10-19 1.8, 10-20 1.8, 10-21 1.8, 10-22 1.9, 10-23 1.8, 10-24 1.7, 10-25 1.6, 10-26 1.5, 10-27 1.5, 10-28 1.7, 10-29 1.8

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories in the last 4 months: #67

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-29 04:27 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.