AI Model

Kimi K2.6

byMoonshot AI

Released on April 21, 2026

Release Summary

Open-weight coding and agent model from Moonshot AI. Reported SOTA among open models on Humanity's Last Exam with tools (54.0%), SWE-Bench Pro (58.6%), and strong scores on SWE-bench Multilingual (76.7%), BrowseComp (83.2%), Toolathlon (50.0%), CharXiv with Python (86.7%), and MathVision with Python (93.2%). Positioned for GPT-5.4-class coding at much lower cost than closed frontier APIs, with long-horizon runs (4,000+ tool calls, 12+ hours), large agent swarms (300 parallel sub-agents, 4,000 steps per run), and multimodal front-end capabilities. Available on kimi.com (chat and agent mode); Kimi Code at kimi.com/code targets production workflows.

Timeline

April 21, 2026

Kimi K2.6 released

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.6 as an open-weight model with chat and agent modes on kimi.com, alongside the Kimi Code product for production-grade coding.