# Kimi-VL

Kimi-VL is an AI model released by Moonshot AI on Apr 10 2025. It has 16B parameters, a 128k context window and open weight.

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Model | Kimi-VL |
| Developer | Moonshot AI |
| Release date | Thursday, Apr 10 2025 |
| Licensing | Open Weight |
| Parameters | 16B |
| Context window | 128k |

## About Kimi-VL

Kimi-VL was introduced in April 2025 as Moonshot AI's downloadable vision-language model family. It combined a vision encoder with a mixture-of-experts language model, activating about 2.8 billion language-model parameters per token. The release included standard instruction and Thinking variants, giving developers separate options for visual conversation and tasks requiring longer reasoning.

The model supported long-context multimodal inputs, with applications including document interpretation, charts, images and visual agent tasks. Moonshot released the models under the MIT License, enabling self-hosting and customization. Its significance in the Kimi lineup was making visual reasoning available as model weights, rather than only as a capability inside the hosted Kimi assistant.

## Questions and answers

### When was Kimi-VL released?

Kimi-VL was released by Moonshot AI on Thursday, Apr 10 2025.

### Who made Kimi-VL?

Kimi-VL was built by Moonshot AI. Chinese AI company building the Kimi family of models. Founded in 2023, known for long-context and efficient MoE architectures.

### What is the context window of Kimi-VL?

Kimi-VL has a context window of 128k. Providers may specify separate input and output token limits.

### How many parameters does Kimi-VL have?

Kimi-VL is reported at 16B parameters.

### Is Kimi-VL open source?

Partly. Kimi-VL is an open-weight model: the trained weights are free to download and run locally or on your own infrastructure, but the training data and code are not fully released and the license may restrict some commercial uses. It is not open source in the strict sense.

### What came before and after Kimi-VL?

Moonshot AI's previous tracked release was Kimi K1.5 on Jan 20 2025, 80 days earlier. It was followed by Kimi-Dev on Jun 17 2025.


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