A vision MoE from Moonshot AI / Kimi, released under the MIT license. The performance of the model looks really solid, being on par with Qwen2.5 VL-7B, while using half the amount of activated parameters (but twice the total params). They also release a thinking version, boosting the scores even further. In their technical report, they state that they will train bigger models on more data. Given that Moonshot AI is one of the superstars in the Chinese LLM space, this team and model series is one to keep an eye on. It also continues the trend we observed: The big Chinese labs and companies continue to release very capable models under permissive OSS licenses, usually MIT or Apache 2.0.
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