Kimi K2.5 - Native multimodal model with self-directed agent swarms
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Kimi K2.5 is Kimi's most intelligent model to date, achieving open-source SoTA performance in Agent, code, visual understanding, and a range of general intelligent tasks. It is also Kimi's most versatile model to date, featuring a native multimodal architecture that supports both visual and text input, thinking and non-thinking modes, and dialogue and Agent tasks.
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Flowtica Scribe
Hi everyone!
Multi-agent architectures are evolving, and Kimi K2.5 executes the "Swarm" concept at a level of scale and native integration we haven't seen before.
Instead of just making a single model think longer (scaling up), they are scaling out.
K2.5 introduces the "Agent Swarm" paradigm. For complex tasks, it autonomously spawns up to 100 sub-agents to execute workflows in parallel, reducing execution time by up to 4.5x.
The Native Multimodality also looks practical, especially the ability to generate code directly from screen recordings (Video-to-Code), rather than just static images.
Kimi also released Kimi Code, which integrates these agentic capabilities directly into the terminal and IDEs like @VS Code, @Cursor, @JetBrains and @Zed.
Impressive to see this level of capability—especially the "Swarm" orchestration—being open-sourced!
100 sub-agents sounds wild until you hit the coordination ceiling. Research keeps showing teams above 3-4 agents see communication overhead spike faster than reasoning gains. Would love to know if K2.5's orchestrator prunes inactive agents dynamically or runs more fire-and-forget.
Humans in the Loop
Kimi K2.5 beats Opus 4.5 on every coding benchmarks!? Wow.
FWIW the model is free for a week on @Kilo Code.
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JDoodle.ai
Agent Swarm sounds really interesting. Does each agent on the swarm can make their own tool/mcp callings or they are consolidated by the main agent?