I wanted the answer to be yes. I have a Mac mini, Kimi K3 is free and open, and "run a frontier model on a $1,400 box" is the kind of result I would love to report.

The memory math says no, and it is not close. Here is the arithmetic, and what I run instead.

Kimi K3 is bigger than "big"

Kimi K3 is a mixture-of-experts model with 2.81 trillion parameters, activating 16 of 896 experts per token.

That second number is where people talk themselves into optimism, so let us deal with it first.