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Kimi-VL

Kimi-VL is a closed language model from Moonshot AI, released June 23, 2025. Its makers disclosed about 16B parameters.

We present Kimi-VL, an efficient open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) vision-language model (VLM) that offers advanced multimodal reasoning, long-context understanding, and strong agent capabilities - all while activating only 2.8B parameters in its language decoder (Kimi-VL-A3B).

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Lab
Moonshot AI
Released
June 23, 2025
Weights
closed
Parameters
16B disclosed
Context
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Price / M tokens
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Benchmark results

Epoch AI has not published results for Kimi-VL yet. New models are usually evaluated within days to weeks.

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