Model Overview
Description:
The NVIDIA Kimi-K2-Thinking-NVFP4 model is the quantized version of the Moonshot AI's Kimi-K2-Thinking model, which is an auto-regressive language model that uses an optimized transformer architecture. For more information, please check here. The NVIDIA Kimi-K2-Thinking NVFP4 model is quantized with TensorRT Model Optimizer.
This model is ready for commercial/non-commercial use.
Third-Party Community Consideration
This model is not owned or developed by NVIDIA. This model has been developed and built to a third-party’s requirements for this application and use case; see link to Non-NVIDIA (Kimi-K2-Thinking) Model Card.
License/Terms of Use:
Governing Terms: Use of this model is governed by the NVIDIA Open Model License. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Modified MIT License.
Deployment Geography
Global
Use Case
This model is intended for developers and researchers building LLMs
Release Date
Huggingface 12/04/2025 via https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Kimi-K2-Thinking-NVFP4
Model Architecture:
Architecture Type: Transformers Network Architecture: DeepSeek V3 Number of Model Parameters: 1T
Input:
Input Type(s): Text Input Format(s): String Input Parameters: 1D (One Dimensional): Sequences
Output:
Output Type(s): Text Output Format: String Output Parameters: 1D (One Dimensional): Sequences
Our AI models are designed and/or optimized to run on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems. By leveraging NVIDIA’s hardware (e.g. GPU cores) and software frameworks (e.g., CUDA libraries), the model achieves faster training and inference times compared to CPU-only solutions.
Software Integration:
Supported Runtime Engine(s):
- vLLM
Supported Hardware Microarchitecture Compatibility:
- NVIDIA Blackwell
Preferred Operating System(s):
- Linux The integration of foundation and fine-tuned models into AI systems requires additional testing using use-case-specific data to ensure safe and effective deployment. Following the V-model methodology, iterative testing and validation at both unit and system levels are essential to mitigate risks, meet technical and functional requirements, and ensure compliance with safety and ethical standards before deployment.
Model Version(s):
** The model is quantized with nvidia-modelopt v0.39.0
Calibration Datasets:
- Calibration Dataset: cnn_dailymail ** Data collection method: Automated. ** Labeling method: Automated.
Training Dataset:
** Data Collection Method by dataset: Hybrid: Human, Automated ** Labeling Method by dataset: Hybrid: Human, Automated ** Data Modality: [Text] ** Text Training Data Size: undisclosed.
Testing Dataset:
** Data Collection Method by dataset: Hybrid: Human, Automated ** Labeling Method by dataset: Hybrid: Human, Automated
Evaluation Dataset:
** Data Collection Method by dataset: Hybrid: Human, Automated ** Labeling Method by dataset: Hybrid: Human, Automated
Inference:
Engine: vLLM/SGLang/TensorRT-LLM Test Hardware: B200
Post Training Quantization
This model was obtained by converting and quantizing the weights and activations of Kimi-K2-Thinking from INT4 to BF16 to NVFP4 data type, ready for inference with vLLM. Only the weights and activations of the linear operators within transformer blocks in MoE are quantized.
Usage
To serve this checkpoint with vLLM, you can start the docker vllm/vllm-openai:v0.11.2 and run the sample command below:
python3 -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server --model nvidia/Kimi-K2-Thinking-NVFP4 --trust-remote-code --tensor-parallel-size 4
To serve this checkpoint with SGLang, you can start the docker lmsysorg/sglang:latest and run the sample command below:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server --model-path nvidia/Kimi-K2-Thinking-NVFP4 --tp 4 --quantization modelopt_fp4 --trust-remote-code
To serve this checkpoint with TensorRT-LLM, please follow instructions in deployment-guide-for-kimi-k2-thinking-on-trtllm
Model Limitations:
The base model was trained on data that contains toxic language and societal biases originally crawled from the internet. Therefore, the model may amplify those biases and return toxic responses especially when prompted with toxic prompts. The model may generate answers that may be inaccurate, omit key information, or include irrelevant or redundant text producing socially unacceptable or undesirable text, even if the prompt itself does not include anything explicitly offensive.
Ethical Considerations
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