Kimi was already one of the best writing models. Excited to try this one out
To me, Kimi has been the best with writing and conversing, its way more human like!
Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model
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Re: Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model
#42One thing caught my eyes is that besides K2.5 model, Moonshot AI also launched Kimi Code (https://www.kimi.com/code), evolved from Kimi CLI. It is a terminal coding agent, I've been used it last month with Kimi subscription, it is capable agent with stable harness.
Re: Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model
#43Huggingface Link: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5 1T parameters, 32b active parameters. License: MIT with the following modification: Our only modification part is that, if the Software (or any derivative works thereof) is used for any of your commercial products or services that have more than 100 million monthly active users, or more than 20 million US dollars (or equivalent in other currencies) in mont…
> or more than 20 million US dollars (or equivalent in other currencies) in monthly revenue, you shall prominently display "Kimi K2.5" on the user interface of such product or service. Why not just say "you shall pay us 1 million dollars"?
Companies with $20M revenue will not normally have spare $1M available. They'd get more money by charging reasonable subscriptions than by using lawyers to chase sudden company-ending fees.
Re: Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model
#44Is this actually good or just optimized heavily for benchmarks? I am hopefully its the former based on the writeup but need to put it through its paces.
Re: Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model
#45Huggingface Link: https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5 1T parameters, 32b active parameters. License: MIT with the following modification: Our only modification part is that, if the Software (or any derivative works thereof) is used for any of your commercial products or services that have more than 100 million monthly active users, or more than 20 million US dollars (or equivalent in other currencies) in mont…
One. Trillion. Even on native int4 that’s… half a terabyte of vram?!
Technical awe at this marvel aside that cracks the 50th percentile of HLE, the snarky part of me says there’s only half the danger in giving something away nobody can run at home anyway…
Re: Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model
#46A realistic setup for this would be a 16× H100 80GB with NVLink. That comfortably handles the active 32B experts plus KV cache without extreme quantization. Cost-wise we are looking at roughly $500k–$700k upfront or $40–60/hr on-demand, which makes it clear this model is aimed at serious infra teams, not casual single-GPU deployments. I’m curious how API providers will price tokens on top of that hardware reality.
Re: Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
The post actually has great benchmark tables inside of it. They might be outdated in a few months, but for now, it gives you a great summary. Seems like Gemini wins on image and video perf, Claude is the best at coding, ChatGPT is the best for general knowledge. But ultimately, you need to try them yourself on the tasks you care about and just see. My personal experience is that right now, Gemini Pro performs the bes…
I like Gemini Pro's UI over Claude so much but honestly I might start using Kimi K2.5 if its open source & just +/- Gemini Pro/Chatgpt/Claude because at that point I feel like the results are negligible and we are getting SOTA open source models again.
> honestly I might start using Kimi K2.5 if its open source & just +/- Gemini Pro/Chatgpt/Claude because at that point I feel like the results are negligible and we are getting SOTA open source models again.
Me too!
> I like Gemini Pro's UI over Claude so much
This I don't understand. I mean, I don't see a lot of difference in both UIs. Quite the opposite, apart from some animations, round corners and color gradings, they seem to look very alike, no?
Re: Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model
#48A realistic setup for this would be a 16× H100 80GB with NVLink. That comfortably handles the active 32B experts plus KV cache without extreme quantization. Cost-wise we are looking at roughly $500k–$700k upfront or $40–60/hr on-demand, which makes it clear this model is aimed at serious infra teams, not casual single-GPU deployments. I’m curious how API providers will price tokens on top of that hardware reality.
The other realistic setup is $20k, for a small company that needs a private AI for coding or other internal agentic use with two Mac Studios connected over thunderbolt 5 RMDA.
Re: Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model
#49About 600GB needed for weights alone, so on AWS you need an p5.48xlarge (8× H100) which costs $55/hour.
Re: Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model
#50Curious what would be the most minimal reasonable hardware one would need to deploy this locally?
Models of this size can usually be run using MLX on a pair of 512GB Mac Studio M3 Ultras, which are about $10,000 each so $20,000 for the pair.