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Kimi K2.5 multimodal agent model released with Agent Swarm framework

Researchers have introduced Kimi K2.5, an open-source multimodal agentic model designed to enhance general agentic intelligence through joint optimization of text and vision. The model incorporates techniques like joint text-vision pre-training and reinforcement learning. Kimi K2.5 also features Agent Swarm, a framework for parallel agent orchestration that breaks down complex tasks into concurrent sub-problems, reducing latency by up to 4.5x. The model achieves state-of-the-art results in coding, vision, reasoning, and agentic tasks, with its checkpoint being released for further research and application. AI

IMPACT This release offers an open-source multimodal agent model and orchestration framework, potentially accelerating research and development in agentic AI.

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    Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence

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