Model Upgrade to Kimi K2.5
https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-5.html
This is an open-source model (though very large — requiring hundreds of GB of VRAM), setting new standards in multimodality, programming, and autonomous agent work. The developers' main pride is the Agent Swarm mode. Instead of one agent performing tasks sequentially, K2.5 can independently create and coordinate an entire "swarm" of 100 sub-agents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQyAzZboDbw
High scores on SWE-Bench (76.8%), close to GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.5. It handles real-world code generation tasks well.
Kimi K2.5 is not just a text model, but a "natively multimodal" intelligence. It was fine-tuned on a massive dataset of 15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens. Thanks to this, the model simultaneously improves its skills in both text understanding and image/video analysis.
As a result, Kimi K2.5 demonstrates excellent results in frontend development. The model can "see" its own mistakes in the visual interface and autonomously fixes them (autonomous visual debugging). The model can also convert video-to-site.
Kimi Code CLI 1.0
https://moonshotai.github.io/kimi-cli/en/
The Chinese company Moonshot AI is developing its own command-line interface, a cross-platform solution (Windows, macOS, Linux) — Kimi Code CLI. Recently, the project has evolved from a simple interactive shell into a complex system, although it is still in Technical Preview. In the best Chinese traditions, the interface is a copy of Claude Code.
The CLI already supports the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) for integration into Zed IDE, MCP, third-party providers, and its own OAuth via login/logout. There is also a web interface launch via the kimi web command.
Skills here are called Flow skills. Users can describe scenarios in SKILL.md files (with Mermaid/D2 diagram support) and trigger them with the /flow command.
Subscription for $19
https://www.kimi.com/code
The subscription is focused on programming, providing access to the CLI and IDE. Prices ($19 / $39 / $199) are on par with American market leaders, which reflects Kimi's confidence in the competitiveness of its models.
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