# Moonshot AI publishes Kimi-Dev-72B, a code-focused model

> Moonshot AI published a 72B code-specialised model on Hugging Face, fine-tuned from Qwen2.5-72B. Tags indicate it targets software engineering and issue-resolution tasks (SWE-bench domain).

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| **Tool** | Moonshot AI |
| **Version** | — |
| **Kind** | release |
| **Published** | 2025-06-16 |
| **Observed** | 2026-08-11 |
| **Significance** | 1/5 |
| **Breaking** | no |
| **Categories** | capability |

> **Note:** this classification is below our confidence threshold and is pending human review.

## What changed


- Repository: `moonshotai/Kimi-Dev-72B`
- Pipeline tag: text-generation
- Library: transformers
- Tags include: code, swebench, software, issue-resolving, conversational
- Base model: `Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B`
- License: MIT
- Created: 2025-06-16, last modified: 2025-06-17


## Sources

- [hf_model](https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-Dev-72B) — retrieved 2026-08-11


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