SMRTR ProgrammingJan 28, 2026TechCrunch

China’s Moonshot releases a new open-source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent

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Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.5, an open source multimodal model trained on 15 trillion tokens that handles text, images, and video. The model outperforms GPT and Gemini on coding benchmarks like SWE-Bench and video understanding tasks. Alongside the model, Moonshot launched Kimi Code, a coding tool rivaling Anthropic's Claude Code, which integrates with VSCode and other development environments.

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