China’s Moonshot Releases A New Open Source Model Kimi K2.5 And A Coding Agent
Moonshot AI's new Kimi K2.5 model delivers native multimodal understanding and advanced coding capabilities in an open-source package.
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China’s Moonshot Releases A New Open Source Model Kimi K2.5 And A Coding Agent
Kimi K2.5 Arrives: China's Moonshot AI Unveils Powerful Open-Source Multimodal Model China's Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.5, a groundbreaking open-source model that processes text, images, and video with native multimodal understanding. Trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and textual tokens, the model excels at coding tasks and orchestrating agent swarms—where multiple AI agents collaborate on complex workflows. Developers can now access these capabilities through the new Kimi Code tool, positioning Moonshot as a serious contender in the global open-source AI race. The release signals China's accelerating push to lead in foundational AI innovation while embracing transparency through open weights. Credit: Bloomberg / Contributor/ Getty Images Why Native Multimodality Changes the Game Most multimodal models stitch together separate vision and language components, creating friction when interpreting mixed inputs. Kimi K2.5 takes a different approach. Its architecture was bui…
