Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding

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Post by meetpateltech » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 3:28 PM UTC

Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding
kimi.com

Re: Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding

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Post by irthomasthomas » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 3:44 PM UTC

Beats opus 4.6! They missed claiming the frontier by a few days.

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Post by nickandbro » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 3:56 PM UTC

Wow, if the benchmarks checkout with the vibes, this could almost be like a Deepseek moment with Chinese AI now being neck and neck with SOTA US lab made models

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Post by swingboy » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 4:01 PM UTC

Exciting benchmarks if true. What kind of hardware do they typically run these benchmarks on? Apologies if my terminology is off, but I assume they're using an unquantized version that wouldn't run on even the beefiest MacBook?

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Post by NitpickLawyer » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 4:03 PM UTC

irthomasthomas wrote: post #2

Beats opus 4.6! They missed claiming the frontier by a few days.

While I'm skeptical of any "beats opus" claims (many were said, none turned out to be true), I still think it's insane that we can now run close-to-SotA models locally on ~100k worth of hardware, for a small team, and be 100% sure that the data stays local. Should be a no-brainer for teams that work in areas where privacy matters.

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Post by BoorishBears » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 4:05 PM UTC

irthomasthomas wrote: post #2

Beats opus 4.6! They missed claiming the frontier by a few days.

Opus is clearly a sidegrade meant to help Anthropic manage cost, so I would say they may have it if it actually beats 4.6

Re: Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding

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Post by motoboi » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 4:06 PM UTC

nickandbro wrote: post #3

Wow, if the benchmarks checkout with the vibes, this could almost be like a Deepseek moment with Chinese AI now being neck and neck with SOTA US lab made models

With the previous generation? Yes. With 10T mythos-level models? Not even close.

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Post by esafak » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 4:07 PM UTC

K2.5 was already pretty decent so I would try this. Starting at $15/month: https://www.kimi.com/membership/pricing

edit: Note that you can run it yourself with sufficient resources (e.g., companies), or access it from other providers too: https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6/providers

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Post by bestouff » Mon, Apr 20, 2026, 4:10 PM UTC

motoboi wrote: post #7

nickandbro wrote: post #3

Wow, if the benchmarks checkout with the vibes, this could almost be like a Deepseek moment with Chinese AI now being neck and neck with SOTA US lab made models

With the previous generation? Yes. With 10T mythos-level models? Not even close.

There's no public data about Mytho.

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