China’s innovative AI endeavor, Moonshot AI, backed by major investors like Alibaba and HongShan, has unveiled its latest open-source model, Kimi K2.5. This advanced model is designed to comprehend and process text, images, and video, marking a significant step in multimodal AI capabilities.
Trained on an impressive 15 trillion mixed tokens, Kimi K2.5 excels in various tasks, including coding and collaborative agent orchestration. Initial benchmarks showcase its competitive edge, with Kimi K2.5 outperforming established models such as Gemini 3 Pro in the SWE-Bench Verified coding benchmark and outpacing GPT 5.2 and Gemini 3 Pro in the SWE-Bench Multilingual coding assessment. In video comprehension, it excels beyond GPT 5.2 and Claude Opus 4.5 in the Video Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding (VideoMMMU) benchmark.
Key features of Kimi K2.5 include:
– Multimodal functionality: Effectively analyzes and generates content across text, images, and videos.
– Enhanced coding capabilities: Users can leverage images and videos as inspiration for coding tasks, enabling intuitive interface creation.
To support these advanced functionalities, Moonshot AI has introduced Kimi Code, an open-source coding tool designed to compete with offerings like Anthropic’s Claude Code and Google’s Gemini CLI. Developers can utilize Kimi Code through terminal interfaces or integrate it seamlessly with development environments, including VSCode, Cursor, and Zed.
The rising demand for AI-driven coding tools is evident, with competitors like Anthropic reporting significant revenues. On the horizon, Moonshot faces competition from Deepseek, which is expected to launch a new model with robust coding features next month.
Founded by former Google and Meta AI researcher Yang Zhilin, Moonshot AI has rapidly attracted significant investment, raising $1 billion in Series B funding, which propelled its valuation to $2.5 billion. Following a recent funding boost of $500 million, its valuation has surged to $4.3 billion, with plans to raise even more at a projected $5 billion valuation.
