# Moonshot AI publishes Moonlight-16B-A3B-Instruct on Hugging Face

> Moonshot AI published the Moonlight-16B-A3B-Instruct model on Hugging Face under the moonshotai organisation. Tags indicate it uses the DeepSeek V3 architecture, is MIT licensed, and has an associated paper (arxiv:2502.16982). The source is a repository listing only; no capability claims, benchmark results, or model details are asserted beyond what the tags carry.

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|---|---|
| **Tool** | Moonshot AI |
| **Version** | — |
| **Kind** | release |
| **Published** | 2025-02-22 |
| **Observed** | 2026-08-11 |
| **Significance** | 1/5 |
| **Breaking** | no |
| **Categories** | feature |

> **Note:** this classification is below our confidence threshold and is pending human review.

## What changed


- Repository: moonshotai/Moonlight-16B-A3B-Instruct on Hugging Face
- Pipeline: text-generation, library: transformers
- Tags: deepseek_v3, safetensors, text-generation, conversational, custom_code
- Associated paper: arxiv:2502.16982
- License: MIT
- Source is a repository listing only; no benchmark results or capability claims are present


## Sources

- [hf_model](https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Moonlight-16B-A3B-Instruct) — retrieved 2026-08-11


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