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Kimi K2.5

A trillion-parameter visual agentic model with a comparatively small active footprint and public weights and code.

Checked release: Kimi-K2.5
Sources checked 2026-09-19

Kimi K2.5 release
· Primary source
Kimi K2.6 release noted by Moonshot AI
· Primary source

K2.5 remains the reference checkpoint here; Moonshot AI’s cited documentation notes a later K2.6 release.

The profile describes this checkpoint, not every release carrying the family name. Developer documentation is not independent reproduction.

THE MODEL / THE TERMS

Know what you are picking up.

Parameters
1T total / 32B active, plus a 400M vision encoder
Architecture
Multimodal mixture-of-experts transformer with MoonViT vision encoding.
Modalities
text · image · video
Context
256K tokens
Weights license
Modified MIT License
Commercial use
Generally permitted, with an additional display requirement for products above the license’s stated revenue or user thresholds.
Memory
The full checkpoint is server-class; quantized serving still requires careful multi-device planning.
Known quantizations
Official/community NVFP4, MXFP4, FP8, GGUF, and MLX variants are listed on the Hub

Specifications are developer-reported. Primary release documentation ↗ · All sources and terms

NINE DIMENSIONS / NO OPENNESS SCORE

What is actually available?

Each component has its own evidence. “Not established” means this source review did not verify availability; it is not a claim that nothing exists.

WHY THIS RELEASE MATTERS

What to explore.

  • Visual agent workflows
  • Coding
  • Long context
  • Sparse activation

WHAT THE RECORD DOES NOT ESTABLISH

Keep the limits.

  • Extremely large total checkpoint
  • Custom license condition at large commercial scale
  • Training data is not released

No independent reproduction is attached; benchmark statements remain attributed to Moonshot AI.

Explore the memory tradeoffs

FOLLOW THE RECORD

Sources, not superlatives.

  1. Moonshot AI Kimi K2.5 release note (repository)
  2. Kimi K2.5 official repository (repository)
  3. Kimi K2.5 model card (registry)
  4. Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence (paper)

Source check: 2026-09-19. AI-assisted editorial review, with no named external expert or independent hardware validation claimed. Licenses and model cards can change. Review the linked terms for the specific artifact and intended use.

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