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Kimi K2.6 Is Here: The Open-Source AI Model Tying GPT-5.5 on Coding

Kimi K2.6 is the new open-source AI model from China’s Moonshot AI, released on April 20, 2026. It just tied GPT-5.5 on the toughest coding benchmark in the industry, at roughly 80% less per million tokens. With 1 trillion total parameters, 32 billion active per token, and a 256K-token context window, K2.6 is now the #1 open-weight model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. In this article you will find what Kimi K2.6 actually does well, where it still loses to Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5, exactly how much it costs, and the simplest ways to use it on a Mac without renting your own GPU. We will also cover […]

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Kimi K2.5: All You Need to Know About China’s Most Powerful Open-Source AI

On January 27, 2026, Chinese AI company Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.5 — and the tech world took notice. Within days, independent evaluations confirmed what the company claimed: Kimi K2.5 performs on par with the best AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic on many key benchmarks. But unlike ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, Kimi K2.5 is open source. That means developers can download it, modify it, and build with it freely. This matters because, until now, the most capable AI models have been locked behind expensive APIs controlled by a handful of American companies. Kimi K2.5 represents a shift — proof that open-source models can compete at the frontier of […]

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New Chinese Model Kimi K2 Thinking Ranks #1 in Multiple Benchmarks

On November 6, 2025, Alibaba-backed Moonshot AI released Kimi K2 Thinking, its most advanced open-source model yet. It’s the first reasoning-focused variant in the Kimi K2 family and marks a major step forward in long-context, multi-step reasoning and autonomous tool use. Kimi K2 Thinking immediately made headlines for its performance: it set new state-of-the-art scores on several open benchmarks, including Humanity’s Last Exam (HLE) and BrowseComp, where it outperformed closed models like GPT-5and Claude Sonnet 4.5. Unlike its competitors, K2 Thinking is fully open-weight, offering public access to its architecture, weights, and API, with only minimal license restrictions. Its release marks a key moment in the open vs. closed model race. While U.S. labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI keep their top […]

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China’s Moonshot AI Dropped Kimi K2 (0905) – The Open-Source Model Crushing the Competition

Moonshot AI, Chinese startup backed by Alibaba and Tencent, is rolling out an upgraded version of its open‑weight open-source large language model, Kimi K2. The new build Kimi K2‑0905, introduces a 256,000-token context window, improved coding performance, and retains its permissive modified MIT license. Although early beta access was briefly mentioned on the company’s Discord before details were removed, the model is now fully available to the public. Weights and a complete model card are live on Hugging Face, making it easy for developers to download, run, and fine-tune the model locally. Moonshot’s Meteoric Rise Founded in March 2023, Moonshot AI has grown at breakneck speed. In just over a year, the startup […]

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Alibaba-Backed Kimi K2 Is Moonshot AI’s Open-Source Challenger to GPT-4

Moonshot AI, the Alibaba-backed Chinese startup, has released Kimi K2, an open-source language model with 1 trillion total parameters and 32 billion activated parameters. This release signals China’s most significant attempt yet to close the gap between open-source and proprietary models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 and Anthropic’s Claude Opus. The model is available in two variants: Kimi-K2-Base for researchers and Kimi-K2-Instruct for general-purpose and agentic tasks. Built on a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, Kimi K2 supports 128K context length and is designed for complex multi-step reasoning and tool usage. Moonshot has priced access to the model competitively. The input token cost is $0.15 per million, and the output token cost is $2.50 per million, making it significantly cheaper than GPT-4.1 or Claude Opus. According to CNBC, analyst […]

キミAI 1.5:ChatGPTとDeepSeekを凌駕するもう一つの新しい中国製AIモデル

人工知能の革新は急速に進んでおり、新たなプレーヤーがこの分野に参入した。中国のスタートアップMoonshot AIが開発したKimi AI 1.5は、AIの次の大物として注目を集めている。OpenAIとDeepSeekの両モデルを凌ぐ強力な機能を無料で提供するKimiは、業界全体を揺るがすモデルになるかもしれない。ここでは、この急成長するAIディスラプターについて知っておくべきことをすべて解説する。Moonshot AI 2023年3月にYang Zhilin、Zhou Xinyu、Wu Yuxinによって設立されたMoonshot AIは新参者かもしれないが、その急成長には目を見張るものがある。同社は1年以内に、アリババ、テンセント、[...]から大規模な資金を確保した。