Rohan Paul on X: "Kimi K3 is open-weight but its licence mostly protects Moonshot’s commercial hosting business:
- large MaaS providers need Moonshot’s permission<br>- extremely large applications must advertise Kimi K3<br>- private partner contracts may impose additional commercial terms;
- Any company offering K3 as a hosted model service must sign a separate Moonshot agreement once group revenue exceeds $20M in any trailing 12 months.
- That threshold counts total revenue of the provider and its affiliates, not just revenue earned from K3.
- Applications embedding K3 for a specific product feature are generally excluded from the Model-as-a-Service restriction.
- Commercial products exceeding 100 million monthly users or $20 million monthly revenue must prominently display “Kimi K3.”
- The public licence does not specify royalties, revenue sharing or mandatory commercial pricing terms.
- The license contains no public clause preventing inference providers from pricing below Moonshot; any such restriction would have to come from a separate partner contract.
- K3 can be used and modified, but the licence also applies to fine-tunes and other derivatives.
Moonshot’s published API pricing is currently $0.30/million cache-hit input tokens, $3/million cache-miss input tokens and $15/million output tokens." / X<br>Post
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Kimi K3 is open-weight but its licence mostly protects Moonshot’s commercial hosting business:
- large MaaS providers need Moonshot’s permission<br>- extremely large applications must advertise Kimi K3<br>- private partner contracts may impose additional commercial terms;
- Any company offering K3 as a hosted model service must sign a separate Moonshot agreement once group revenue exceeds $20M in any trailing 12 months.
- That threshold counts total revenue of the provider and its affiliates, not just revenue earned from K3.
- Applications embedding K3 for a specific product feature are generally excluded from the Model-as-a-Service restriction.
- Commercial products exceeding 100 million monthly users or $20 million monthly revenue must prominently display “Kimi K3.”
- The public licence does not specify royalties, revenue sharing or mandatory commercial pricing terms.
- The license contains no public clause preventing inference providers from pricing below Moonshot; any such restriction would have to come from a separate partner contract.
- K3 can be used and modified, but the licence also applies to fine-tunes and other derivatives.
Moonshot’s published API pricing is currently $0.30/million cache-hit input tokens, $3/million cache-miss input tokens and $15/million output tokens.
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@rohanpaul_ai
Jul 28
Kimi-K3/LICENSE at main · MoonshotAI/Kimi-K3
From github.com
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@netconstructor
Jul 28
I find it kinda rich that we’re being told by China that successful companies around the world aren’t allowed to use their intellectual property without permission 😆
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