Modelofficial release

moonshotai/Kimi-Dev-72B

Parameters72.7B
Context128K
Input → outputtext → text
Licensemit
PrecisionBF16
ArchitectureQwen2ForCausalLM
ReleasedJun 16, 2025
Downloads2.9K

Based on Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B

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