From 5cdede687b28814a9de2bf0b015cf5c78f0afb80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony Giorgio <tonygiorgio@protonmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 14:51:24 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] chore: replace Qwen3 Coder with Kimi K2.5

Co-authored-by: factory-droid[bot] <138933559+factory-droid[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 frontend/src/components/Marketing.tsx     |  4 ++--
 frontend/src/components/ModelSelector.tsx | 17 +++++++++--------
 frontend/src/state/LocalStateContext.tsx  |  7 ++++---
 frontend/src/utils/utils.ts               |  4 ++++
 4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Marketing.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Marketing.tsx
index f0358b13..08c8f459 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/Marketing.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Marketing.tsx
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ const AI_MODELS = [
   {
     src: "/badge-kimi-logo.png",
     alt: "Moonshot",
-    labels: ["Kimi K2"]
+    labels: ["Kimi K2", "Kimi K2.5"]
   },
-  { src: "/badge-qwen-logo.png", alt: "Qwen", labels: ["Qwen3 Coder", "Qwen3-VL"] },
+  { src: "/badge-qwen-logo.png", alt: "Qwen", labels: ["Qwen3-VL"] },
   { src: "/badge-meta-logo.png", alt: "Meta", labels: ["Meta Llama"] }
 ];
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ModelSelector.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ModelSelector.tsx
index 29dfd15f..0334d1c3 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ModelSelector.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ModelSelector.tsx
@@ -75,6 +75,14 @@ export const MODEL_CONFIG: Record<string, ModelCfg> = {
     requiresPro: true,
     tokenLimit: 256000
   },
+  "kimi-k2-5": {
+    displayName: "Kimi K2.5",
+    shortName: "Kimi K2.5",
+    badges: ["Pro", "New"],
+    requiresPro: true,
+    supportsVision: true,
+    tokenLimit: 256000
+  },
   "gpt-oss-120b": {
     displayName: "OpenAI GPT-OSS 120B",
     shortName: "GPT-OSS",
@@ -82,13 +90,6 @@ export const MODEL_CONFIG: Record<string, ModelCfg> = {
     requiresPro: true,
     tokenLimit: 128000
   },
-  "qwen3-coder-480b": {
-    displayName: "Qwen3 Coder 480B",
-    shortName: "Qwen3 Coder",
-    badges: ["Pro"],
-    requiresPro: true,
-    tokenLimit: 128000
-  },
   "qwen3-vl-30b": {
     displayName: "Qwen3-VL 30B",
     shortName: "Qwen3-VL",
@@ -115,7 +116,7 @@ export const CATEGORY_MODELS = {
   quick: "gpt-oss-120b",
   reasoning_on: "kimi-k2-thinking", // Kimi K2 with thinking
   reasoning_off: "deepseek-r1-0528", // DeepSeek R1 without thinking
-  math: "qwen3-coder-480b",
+  math: "kimi-k2-5",
   image: "qwen3-vl-30b" // Qwen3-VL for image analysis
 };
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/state/LocalStateContext.tsx b/frontend/src/state/LocalStateContext.tsx
index 3ab82d97..af558c43 100644
--- a/frontend/src/state/LocalStateContext.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/state/LocalStateContext.tsx
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ function getInitialModel(): string {
     // Priority 1: Check local storage for last used model
     const selectedModel = localStorage.getItem("selectedModel");
     if (selectedModel) {
-      return selectedModel;
+      return aliasModelName(selectedModel);
     }
 
     // Priority 2: Check cached billing status for pro/max/team users
@@ -76,9 +76,10 @@ export const LocalStateProvider = ({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode })
 
   async function persistChat(chat: Chat) {
     const chatToSave = {
+      ...chat,
+
       /** If a model is missing, assume the default Llama and write it now */
-      model: aliasModelName(chat.model) || DEFAULT_MODEL_ID,
-      ...chat
+      model: aliasModelName(chat.model) || DEFAULT_MODEL_ID
     };
 
     console.log("Persisting chat:", chatToSave);
diff --git a/frontend/src/utils/utils.ts b/frontend/src/utils/utils.ts
index 3ff75e0c..7703da1a 100644
--- a/frontend/src/utils/utils.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/utils/utils.ts
@@ -89,5 +89,9 @@ export function aliasModelName(modelName: string | undefined): string {
     return "llama-3.3-70b";
   }
 
+  if (modelName === "qwen3-coder-480b") {
+    return "kimi-k2-5";
+  }
+
   return modelName;
 }

From 055d94cd42aa218b9e6e6293870da6a20b21c1f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tony Giorgio <tonygiorgio@protonmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2026 21:18:21 -0600
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] chore: remove stale New badges

Co-authored-by: factory-droid[bot] <138933559+factory-droid[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 frontend/src/components/ModelSelector.tsx | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/frontend/src/components/ModelSelector.tsx b/frontend/src/components/ModelSelector.tsx
index 0334d1c3..92194ab9 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/ModelSelector.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/ModelSelector.tsx
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ export const MODEL_CONFIG: Record<string, ModelCfg> = {
   "kimi-k2-thinking": {
     displayName: "Kimi K2 Thinking",
     shortName: "Kimi K2",
-    badges: ["Pro", "Reasoning", "New"],
+    badges: ["Pro", "Reasoning"],
     requiresPro: true,
     tokenLimit: 256000
   },
@@ -93,7 +93,6 @@ export const MODEL_CONFIG: Record<string, ModelCfg> = {
   "qwen3-vl-30b": {
     displayName: "Qwen3-VL 30B",
     shortName: "Qwen3-VL",
-    badges: ["New"],
     requiresStarter: true,
     supportsVision: true,
     tokenLimit: 256000