Kimi K2.5 in the Media

4 mentions across press, blogs, and newsletters

Top coverageTom's Hardware

1 tech media

May 2026

768GB of cheap Intel Optane DIMM memory sticks used to run 1-trillion-parameter LLM on a system with a single GPU — local Kimi K2.5 install achieved roughly 4 tokens per second

A Redditor has caused a stir by coaxing a workstation build using Optane PMem DIMMs as RAM to run a 1-trillion parameter LLM.

May 23, 2026

March 2026

Benzinga

Cursor Faces Backlash After Revealing Its Coding Model Was Built On Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5

Artificial intelligence coding startup, Cursor, faced backlash after revealing its latest Composer 2 model was built on Kimi K2.5, an open-source platform from China's Moonshot AI. Tipranks <a href="https://www.tipranks.com/news/curs

Mar 24, 2026

Implicator

Cursor Acknowledges Kimi K2.5 as Composer 2 Base After Developer Spots Model ID

Cursor shipped Composer 2 with benchmarks beating Claude Opus 4.6, but a developer found a Kimi K2.5 model ID buried in API traffic within 24 hours. What followed: a licensing dispute, deleted accusations from Moonshot AI, and a partnership announcement that left more questions than answers.

Mar 21, 2026

The Decoder

Cursor quietly built its new coding model on top of Chinese open-source Kimi K2.5

Cursor releases Composer 2, the second generation of its own AI model fo

Mar 21, 2026

Toolradar Research

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