Kimi K2.5: Moonshot AI's Open Source Multimodal Beast is Coming for Claude Code's Throne
The AI arms race just got a new heavyweight contender. China’s Moonshot AI has unleashed Kimi K2.5, an open source multimodal model that’s not just matching proprietary giants—it’s outright beating them on critical benchmarks. And they’re not stopping there: they’ve also launched Kimi Code, a direct challenger to Anthropic’s billion-dollar Claude Code empire. The Numbers Don’t Lie Let’s cut straight to what matters. On SWE-Bench Verified, the gold standard for measuring real-world coding ability, Kimi K2.5 outperforms Gemini 3 Pro. On SWE-Bench Multilingual, it beats both GPT 5.2 and Gemini 3 Pro. ...