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Moonshot Kimi K2.5 - Beats Sonnet 4.5 at half the cost, SOTA Open Model, first Native Image+Video, 100…

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Moonshot has released Kimi K2.6, an updated open-weight model that enhances its capabilities in agentic coding and multimodal understanding. This new version boasts a 1T-parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 32B active parameters and 384 experts, supporting a 256K context window and native image/video processing. Kimi K2.6 claims state-of-the-art performance on various coding and reasoning benchmarks, including long-horizon tasks with thousands of tool calls and extended autonomous runs. AI

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Moonshot Kimi K2.5 - Beats Sonnet 4.5 at half the cost, SOTA Open Model, first Native Image+Video, 100…

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COVERAGE [3]

  1. Latent Space (swyx) TIER_1 English(EN) · Latent.Space ·

    [AINews] Moonshot Kimi K2.6: the world's leading Open Model refreshes to catch up to Opus 4.6 (ahead of DeepSeek v4?)

    Yay Kimi!!!

  2. Smol AINews TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Moonshot Kimi K2.5 - Beats Sonnet 4.5 at half the cost, SOTA Open Model, first Native Image+Video, 100 parallel Agent Swarm manager

    **MoonshotAI's Kimi K2.5** is a **32B active-1T parameter open-weights model** featuring **native multimodality** with image and video understanding, built through continual pretraining on **15 trillion mixed visual and text tokens**. It introduces a new **MoonViT vision encoder*…

  3. X — Perplexity TIER_1 English(EN) · perplexity_ai ·

    Kimi K2.6, the new state-of-the-art open-weight model from Moonshot, is now available for Pro and Max subscribers. https://t.co/Cn2mRh8525

    Kimi K2.6, the new state-of-the-art open-weight model from Moonshot, is now available for Pro and Max subscribers. https://t.co/Cn2mRh8525

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