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Moonshot debuted its open-source Kimi K2.5 model on Tuesday.
It can generate web interfaces based solely on images or video.
It also comes with an "agent swarm" beta feature.
Alibaba-backed Chinese AI startup Moonshot released Kimi K2.5 on Tuesday, describing it in a blog post as the world's "most powerful open-source model to date."
Built on top of the Kimi K2 LLM, which debuted last summer, Moonshot's latest model comes with coding capabilities that could make it a serious competitor with its proprietary counterparts. Kimi K2.5 scored comparably to frontier models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic on the SWE-Bench Verified and SWE-Bench Multilingual coding benchmarks, according to data published by Moonshot.
Credit: Moonshot
Its ability to create front-end web interfaces from visual inputs, however, is what could truly set it apart from the crowd.
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