tech
January 27, 2026
China's Moonshot releases a new open-source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent
The company said that the model was trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens.
TL;DR
- Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.5, an open-source, natively multimodal AI model.
- The model is trained on 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens.
- Kimi K2.5 excels at coding tasks and handling agent swarms, outperforming proprietary peers in benchmarks.
- It surpasses Gemini 3 Pro and GPT 5.2 in coding benchmarks.
- In video understanding, it beats GPT 5.2 and Claude Opus 4.5 on the VideoMMMU benchmark.
- Moonshot AI launched Kimi Code, an open-source coding tool that accepts text, image, and video inputs.
- Kimi Code is designed to rival Anthropic’s Claude Code and Google’s Gemini CLI.
- Coding tools are rapidly growing in popularity and revenue for AI labs.
- Moonshot AI, founded by Yang Zhilin, has secured significant funding rounds, with its valuation increasing.
- The startup is reportedly seeking to raise further capital at a higher valuation.