# Kimi-VL

Kimi-VL is an AI model released by Moonshot AI on Apr 10 2025. It has 16B parameters and open weight.

## Facts

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

## 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.

### 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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Canonical page: https://aireleasetracker.com/model/moonshot/kimi-vl
Full dataset: https://aireleasetracker.com/llms-full.txt · JSON: https://aireleasetracker.com/models.json
Source: AI Release Tracker (https://aireleasetracker.com). Benchmark scores are the figures published by the releasing lab at launch.