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Oct 31, 2025

Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct

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MIT-licensed hybrid linear-attention model using Kimi Delta Attention, built for million-token contexts with much lower KV-cache usage.

Hybrid48B1.0M ctxOct 31, 2025