Kimi VL A3B Thinking

About Kimi VL A3B Thinking

Kimi-VL is a lightweight Mixture-of-Experts vision-language model that activates only 2.8B parameters per step while delivering strong performance on multimodal reasoning and long-context tasks. The Kimi-VL-A3B-Thinking variant, fine-tuned with chain-of-thought and reinforcement learning, excels in math and visual reasoning benchmarks like MathVision, MMMU, and MathVista, rivaling much larger models such as Qwen2.5-VL-7B and Gemma-3-12B. It supports 128K context and high-resolution input via its MoonViT encoder.

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🚀 Quick Start

Get started with Kimi VL A3B Thinking API

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.provider.com/v1",
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY"
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="moonshotai/kimi-vl-a3b-thinking",
    messages=[
        {"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}
    ]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)

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