Kimi Launches Open-Source Reasoning VLM
mervenoyann · x · 2026-07-17
The quoted content introduces Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking: an open-source, MIT-licensed reasoning VLM, claimed to be the first "capable" open-source reasoning vision-language model.
Key highlights:
- Features only 2.8B activated params
- Possesses agentic capabilities
- The authors claim its performance exceeds that of gpt-4o
The original post simply expresses long-standing confidence in Kimi, with the core details concentrated in the cited model introduction and test results.
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