Interested in the dedicated Agent and Agent Swarm releases, especially in how that could affect third party hosting of the models.
1T parameters, 32b active parameters.
License: MIT with the following modification:
Our only modification part is that, if the Software (or any derivative works thereof) is used for any of your commercial products or services that have more than 100 million monthly active users, or more than 20 million US dollars (or equivalent in other currencies) in monthly revenue, you shall prominently display "Kimi K2.5" on the user interface of such product or service.
Why not just say "you shall pay us 1 million dollars"?
Because I feel like they mentioned that agent swarm is available their api and that made me feel as if it wasn't open (weights)*? Please let me know if all are open source or not?
> K2.5 Agent Swarm improves performance on complex tasks through parallel, specialized execution [..] leads to an 80% reduction in end-to-end runtime
Not just RL on tool calling, but RL on agent orchestration, neat!
You can of course "run" this on cheaper hardware, but the speeds will not be suitable for actual use (i.e. minutes for a simple prompt, tens of minutes for high context sessions per turn).
Sure it's SOTA at standard vision benchmarks. But on tasks that require proper image understanding, see for example BabyVision[0] it appears very much lacking compared to Gemini 3 Pro.
But ultimately, you need to try them yourself on the tasks you care about and just see. My personal experience is that right now, Gemini Pro performs the best at everything I throw at it. I think it's superior to Claude and all of the OSS models by a small margin, even for things like coding.
Maybe we can get away with something cheaper than Claude for coding.