Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2: A Trillion-Parameter MoE Model Focused on Long Context, Code, Reasoning, and Agentic Behavior

Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2: A Trillion-Parameter MoE Model Focused on Long Context, Code, Reasoning, and Agentic Behavior

Kimi K2, launched by Moonshot AI in July 2025, is a purpose-built, open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model—1 trillion total parameters, with 32 billion active parameters per token. It’s trained using the custom MuonClip optimizer on 15.5 trillion tokens, achieving stable training at this unprecedented scale without the typical instabilities seen in ultra-large models. Unlike traditional chatbots, K2 is architected…

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Exploring data and its influence on political behavior

Exploring data and its influence on political behavior

Data and politics are becoming increasingly intertwined. Today’s political campaigns and voter mobilization efforts are now entirely data-driven. Voters, pollsters, and elected officials are relying on data to make choices that have local, regional, and national impacts. A Department of Political Science course offers students tools to help make sense of these choices and their…

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