Kimi-VLOpen Weight

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

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.

Kimi-VL is reported at 16B parameters.

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.

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.