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Moonshot’s Kimi K2.5 Is 'Open,' 595GB, and Built for Agent Swarms — Reddit Wants a Smaller One

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Two days after releasing what analysts call the most powerful open-source AI model ever created, researchers from China's Moonshot AI logged onto Reddit to face a restless audience. The Beijing-based startup had reason to show up. Kimi K2.5 had just landed headlines about closing the gap with American AI giants and testing the limits of US. chip export controls. But the developers waiting on r/LocalLLaMA, a forum where engineers trade advice on …

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Kimi K2.5 is a multimodal artificial intelligence model (text, image, video) launched at the end of January 2026 by Chinese start-up Moonshot AI. Based on Moonshot's stated ambition (led by Yang Zhilin, a former Google/Meta researcher) to offer a powerful alternative to proprietary giants, K2.5 intends to compete with models like GPT-5 (OpenAI), Gemini/Google Bard or Claude 4.5 (Anthropic). Its architecture is massive: about 1 trillion parameter…

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geeky-gadgets.com broke the news in on Thursday, January 29, 2026.
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