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. The open-weight race kept moving fast, and GLM 5.2 has since pulled ahead of GPT-5.5 on SWE-bench Pro. With […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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