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Latent Space (Swyx) analyst · 1d ago · 3/5
[AINews] Moonshot Kimi K2.6: the world's leading Open Model refreshes to catch up to Opus 4.6 (ahead of DeepSeek v4?) ↗
Moonshot released Kimi K2.6, a 1T-parameter open-weight mixture-of-experts model with 32B active parameters, 256K context, and native multimodality. The model reportedly achieves open-source state-of-the-art on multiple coding and tool-use benchmarks, including SWE-Bench Pro 58.6 and supports 4,000+ tool calls with 12+ hour continuous runs. Community reports indicate strong performance as a Claude/GPT alternative for coding infrastructure work, with ecosystem integrations across vLLM, OpenRouter, and other platforms.
memory will be the great lock in.
as useful work rises, so does attack surface; sandboxing alone fails, so monitoring is essential.