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Will Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 fit on a 512GB Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)?

Not as published. Every MLX conversion we found is larger than the ~469 GiB GPU limit of a 512GB Mac.

moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905: 1,026B parameters. License: other.

MLX weightsSizeOn 512GB (~469 GiB GPU limit)
mlx-community/Kimi-K2-Instruct-4bit537.9 GiBDoesn't fit, 69 GiB over the limit
mlx-community/Kimi-K2-Thinking612.5 GiBDoesn't fit, 144 GiB over the limit

Sizes: sum of .safetensors files from the Hugging Face API (Oct 2026). "GPU limit" is iogpu.wired_limit_mb=480000, already set on our Studios. Newer architectures may need a recent mlx-lm or llama.cpp; check before you book around one model.

Run it

uv venv ~/mlx && uv pip install --python ~/mlx/bin/python -U mlx-lm
~/mlx/bin/mlx_lm.chat --model <repo>

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