Kimi k1.5

Closed weights Moonshot January 2025

No estimate

No hardware requirements for this model

The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

On record

Full specification

Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.

Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
Moonshot
Organisation type
Industry
Country
China
Published
22 January 2025
Authors
Kimi Team, Angang Du, Bofei Gao, Bowei Xing, Changjiu Jiang, Cheng Chen, Cheng Li, Chenjun Xiao, Chenzhuang Du, Chonghua Liao, Chuning Tang, Congcong Wang, Dehao Zhang, Enming Yuan, Enzhe Lu, Fengxiang Tang, Flood Sung, Guangda Wei, Guokun Lai, Haiqing Guo, Han Zhu, Hao Ding, Hao Hu, Hao Yang, Hao Zhang, Haotian Yao, Haotian Zhao, Haoyu Lu, Haoze Li, Haozhen Yu, Hongcheng Gao, Huabin Zheng, Huan Y…

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain
Multimodal, Language, Vision
Task
Language modeling/generation, Code generation, Quantitative reasoning, Question answering, Visual question answering, Translation, Image captioning, Visual puzzles

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Training data
tokens

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
API access
Training code
Unreleased

https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-k1.5

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Why it is tracked
SOTA improvement

"Sota short-CoT performance, outperforming GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 on AIME, MATH-500, LiveCodeBench by a large margin (up to +550%)"

Record confidence
Unknown
Citations
913

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference
Kimi k1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs
Last updated
25 May 2026

What the numbers mean

What this model is

Kimi k1.5 was published by Moonshot, in the country recorded as China, during January 2025. The category the publisher falls under is industry.

It works in the domain of Multimodal, Language, Vision, and is recorded as performing the task of language modeling/generation, Code generation, Quantitative reasoning, Question answering, Visual question answering, Translation, Image captioning, Visual puzzles.

This is a closed model: the trained values stayed with whoever produced them, and there is no local version to run.

Training and provenance

Its inclusion criterion: sOTA improvement.

Answers

Kimi k1.5 — common questions

01

Kimi k1.5— is it open source?

No. Its weights have not been published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

02

Kimi k1.5— how many parameters does it have?

No parameter count has been published for it, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

03

Kimi k1.5— who created it?

It was published by Moonshot, based in China, an organisation categorised as industry.

04

Kimi k1.5— when was it released?

It was published in January 2025.

05

Kimi k1.5— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Multimodal, Language, Vision, and is recorded as handling the task of language modeling/generation, Code generation, Quantitative reasoning, Question answering, Visual question answering, Translation, Image captioning, Visual puzzles. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

06

Kimi k1.5— what GPU do I need to run it?

None. This is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 25 May 2026

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