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Kimi K2.5

Moonshot AI·

LLMsopen-weightcloud + localFrontier

Overview

1T MoE (32B active) open-weight model with native multimodal vision and agent swarm support for up to 100 sub-agents.

Capabilities and innovations

1T total / 32B active MoE262K contextNatively multimodal (MoonViT 400M)Agent swarms (100 sub-agents)1,500 parallel tool callsModified MIT licenseMoonViT Vision Encoder (400M params)100 Sub-Agent Swarm Support1,500 Parallel Tool CallsTop-Ranked Artificial Analysis & LMArena at Launch

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScoreSource
MMLU-Pro85.91%unsourced
Terminal-Bench 2.x41.95%independent
Terminal-Bench 2.1 41.95%, measured by Vals AI with the Terminus 2 harness (accessed 2026-09-23). Vals AI is the reference harness for this field so values compare across vendors; vendor and other third-party figures stay in the notes below. Thinking mode. No Terminal-Bench 2.x value was recorded before.
  • GPQA Diamond: not reported by the vendor
  • Humanity’s Last Exam (no tools): not reported by the vendor
  • SWE-bench Verified: not reported by the vendor
  • SWE-bench Pro: not reported by the vendor
  • MMLU: not reported by the vendor
  • MMMU-Pro: not reported by the vendor

Architecture and hardware

Parameters
1000B total, 32B active per token (MoE)
Estimated VRAM at Q4
~575 GB, Frontier class

Reliability

Hallucination rate (Vectara HHEM)
14.2% (lower is better)independent
Agentic tool use (τ-bench)
74.2% (higher is better)third party

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