Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.6

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Released Kimi K2.6 — 1T total / 32B active, up to 13 hours of continuous coding, 300 subagents collaborating across 4,000 steps. SWE-Bench Verified 80.2% (self-reported)

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An open-weight model entered the 80% range on SWE-Bench Verified. No independent party checking the result is named

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Pressyicaiglobal.comhttps://www.yicaiglobal.com/news/chinas-moonshot-ai-releases-kimi-k26-pushing-boundaries-in-coding-multi-agent-capabilities

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On the map — ⑨ Open-Weight Lineage line

  1. Previous stopKimi K2 Thinking
  2. This recordKimi K2.6
  3. Next stopK-EXAONE 2.0
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In the model family tree — Kimi family · 8 versions

  1. Earlier versionKimi K2.5
  2. This recordKimi K2.6
  3. Later versionKimi K2.7-Code
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