Kimi K2 vs Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B

Moonshot AI

Kimi K2, released by Moonshot AI on July 11, 2025, is an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 1 trillion total parameters and 32 billion active parameters per inference. It features a 256K token context window (expanded from 128K in an September 2025 update) and demonstrated strong performance on agentic coding benchmarks. Kimi K2 targets software engineering agents, tool-use workflows, and open-source deployments under a modified MIT license.

Alibaba / Qwen

Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B, released by Alibaba's Qwen team in September 2025, is a natively multimodal Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 235 billion total parameters and 22 billion active parameters. It features a 256K token context window (with extrapolation to 1M tokens), native support for text, image, and video input, and joint visual-textual reasoning capabilities. Qwen3-VL-235B targets complex visual reasoning, video understanding, and multimodal agentic tasks under the Apache 2.0 license.