Model family timeline
Last updated Jun 21, 2025
Kimi-VL model releases
A source-backed timeline for the Kimi-VL model family, collecting release dates, labs, access details, context windows, and major lifecycle changes.
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2 models
Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking-2506
AvailableMoonshot AIOpen source
Updated MIT-licensed Kimi-VL reasoning model with better multimodal reasoning, video understanding, high-resolution perception, and lower thinking-token use.
Type
MoE
Params
16B
Context
128K
Top eval
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Released
Jun 21, 2025
12mo ago
MoE16B128K ctxJun 21, 2025
Kimi-VL-A3B-Instruct
AvailableMoonshot AIOpen source
Efficient MIT-licensed vision-language MoE for OCR, image/video understanding, long documents, and OS-style agent tasks.
Type
MoE
Params
16B
Context
128K
Top eval
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Released
Apr 17, 2025
1.2y ago
MoE16B128K ctxApr 17, 2025