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MoonshotAI: Moonlight 16B A3B Instruct

moonshotai/moonlight-16b-a3b-instruct

Model weights

Moonlight-16B-A3B-Instruct is a 16B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model developed by Moonshot AI. It is optimized for instruction-following tasks with 3B activated parameters per inference. The model advances the Pareto frontier in performance per FLOP across English, coding, math, and Chinese benchmarks. It outperforms comparable models like Llama3-3B and Deepseek-v2-Lite while maintaining efficient deployment capabilities through Hugging Face integration and compatibility with popular inference engines like vLLM12.

Modalities

Context

8K

Released

Feb 28, 2025

Knowledge Cutoff

Jun 2024

About MoonshotAI: Moonlight 16B A3B Instruct

OpenRouter makes MoonshotAI: Moonlight 16B A3B Instruct available through a unified, OpenAI-compatible API using the model ID moonshotai/moonlight-16b-a3b-instruct.

MoonshotAI: Moonlight 16B A3B Instruct accepts text and returns text. It has a 8,192-token context window.

It was released on February 28, 2025; its knowledge cutoff is June 30, 2024.

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Frequently asked questions

Moonlight-16B-A3B-Instruct is a 16B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model developed by Moonshot AI. It is optimized for instruction-following tasks with 3B activated parameters per inference. The model advances the Pareto frontier in performance per FLOP across English, coding, math, and Chinese benchmarks.

Moonlight 16B A3B Instruct has a 8,192 token context window.

Kimi K3, Kimi K2.7 Code, Kimi K2.6 and 4 more are other text models from MoonshotAI.

Moonlight 16B A3B Instruct was released on February 28, 2025. Its knowledge cutoff is June 30, 2024.

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