Achieving Reliable Tool Calling with Kimi K2 on vLLM: A Comprehensive Debugging Guide If you’ve been working with large language models, you know how exciting agentic workflows can be. The ability for models to call tools reliably opens up possibilities for complex applications, from automated research to advanced coding assistants. Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 series stands out in this area, with impressive tool calling performance. Naturally, many developers want to run it on high-performance open-source inference engines like vLLM. When I first tried deploying Kimi K2 on vLLM and running the official K2-Vendor-Verifier benchmark, the results were disappointing. The tool …
Getting Started with Kimi K2 in VS Code: A Practical Walk-Through for Every Coder Kimi K2 is a new, open-source artificial-intelligence model developed by Moonshot AI. It contains one trillion parameters, yet it runs efficiently thanks to a design called Mixture-of-Experts (MoE). In plain English, this means only the parts of the model that are actually needed for your request are used at any given moment, making it both powerful and surprisingly light on hardware. This guide walks you—step by step—through installing the free Cline extension in Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) and connecting it to Kimi K2. By …
Kimi K2: Unleashing Agentic Intelligence with MoE and Muon Optimization Driven by the rapid evolution of large language models, Kimi K2 emerges from Moonshot AI as a next-generation agentic intelligence powerhouse. Boasting a trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture and over thirty-two billion active parameters, Kimi K2 was engineered to excel in natural language understanding, code generation, advanced reasoning, and seamless tool integration. This comprehensive guide presents a clear, practical overview—tailored for readers with junior college education or above—covering its design philosophy, architecture, performance benchmarks, deployment strategies, and hands-on examples. Table of Contents Why Agentic Intelligence Matters Core Innovations in Kimi K2 …