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Moonshot releases Kimi K2.5, an open multimodal model with an agent swarm mode

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Source: Hugging Face: moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5Also reported by InfoQ

Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.5, an open-weights native multimodal agentic model built by continued pretraining on about 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens on top of Kimi K2, with instant and thinking modes. A research-preview swarm mode splits tasks across up to 100 sub-agents working in parallel.

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Chinese open models now include agents that coordinate many sub-agents, available for anyone to download.

When
27 Jan 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0188
Where
China
Who
Moonshot AI

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Hugging Face and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 10 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Hugging Face

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

Next stop on this Storyline: Led toMoonshot releases Kimi K2.6, scaling its agent swarm to 300 sub-agents

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WTA-N-2026-0188: “Moonshot releases Kimi K2.5, an open multimodal model with an agent swarm mode.” wheresthe.ai, 27 Jan 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/cn-moonshot-kimi-k2-5-release-2026-01/ (source: Hugging Face: moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5).

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