Unsloth AI Releases 1.8-bit Quantized Kimi K2 Model, Significantly Reducing Deployment Costs
Unsloth AI quantized Moonshot AI's 1T-parameter Kimi K2 model to 1.8bit, reducing size by 80% to 245GB while maintaining performance. The MoE-based model excels in coding and reasoning, now deployable on 512GB M3Ultra devices, lowering costs. This advancement positions Kimi K2 as a GPT-4.1 competitor, benefiting SMEs and boosting open-source AI adoption in education/healthcare.....