Open Source AI Is a Billionaire’s Playground. Here’s Proof.
Kimi K3 is the largest open-weight AI model ever released — 2.8 trillion parameters, 1.56 TB of weights. But here’s the catch: deploying it requires at least $800,000 in hardware, and the recommended setup costs $3 million. Open source AI has become a billionaire’s playground, where the real gatekeeper isn’t the model license — it’s the memory and interconnect hardware. This article breaks down the real cost of ‘free’ AI and why the hardware bottleneck is the new battleground.