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Kimi-VL is an AI model released by Moonshot AI on Thursday, Apr 10 2025, 80 days after Kimi K1.5. It is an open-weight model — the trained weights are available to download and run. It is a 16B parameterThe learned values that shape how a model responds. B means billion and T means trillion. For mixture-of-experts models, the total count is larger than the number active for each token. Parameter count alone does not measure quality. model with a 128k token context windowHow much information the model can work with in one request, measured in tokens — pieces of words or other data. This includes your question, attachments, conversation and reply. Limits can vary by model variant and provider..
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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.
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Kimi-VL was released by Moonshot AI on Thursday, Apr 10 2025.