Overview
Kimi K2.5 is a new multimodal AI model that adds vision capabilities to the existing 1 trillion parameter K2 architecture. The key advancement is its agent swarm paradigm that can automatically create and coordinate up to 100 sub-agents for complex task execution.
The Breakdown
- Native multimodal architecture built through continued pretraining on 15T mixed visual and text tokens, enabling the model to process both images and text inputs unlike its text-only predecessors
- Self-directed agent swarm system that automatically creates up to 100 sub-agents for complex tasks, executing parallel workflows across up to 1,500 tool calls without requiring predefined agents or workflows
- 4.5x faster execution times compared to single-agent setups through parallel task decomposition and coordination between multiple specialized agents
- Modified MIT license with commercial restrictions requiring prominent “Kimi K2.5” attribution for products/services with 100M+ monthly users or $20M+ monthly revenue
- 595GB model size requiring high-end hardware like dual Mac Studios with 512GB RAM for local deployment, making it accessible primarily to well-resourced organizations