Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.5

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Released Kimi K2.5 — MoE with 1T total / 32B active parameters, natively multimodal through pretraining on vision-language tokens, introduces a self-coordinating Agent Swarm, modified-MIT

Why it matters

The point where the K2 line shifted from text to native multimodality, and the arrival of an open-weight agent swarm

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On the map — ⑦ Multimodal line

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  2. This record · stopKimi K2.5
  3. Next stopClaude Opus 4.7
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In the model family tree — Kimi family · 8 versions

  1. Earlier versionKimi K2 Thinking
  2. This recordKimi K2.5
  3. Later versionKimi K2.6
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