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Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding

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

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The modified MIT clause is sneakier than people think. Hit 100M users or $20M a month and you have to slap "Kimi K2.6" on your UI. That covers any consumer app worth building. Not really open, more like free until you matter. Llama pulled the same move

in what way does this restrict how you are able to use the model?

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

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wow - $0.95 input/$4 output. If its anywhere near opus 4.6 that's incredible.

This should erase any doubt that AI Labs are making $$$ on API inference. Kimi 2.5 (which this is based on) is served at $0.44 input / $2 output by a ton of different providers on OpenRouter, 2.6 will certainly be similar. That's about 11X less than Opus for similar smarts.

It’s worth noting that the US is very behind on energy infra and that might affect the cost calculations since data centers are electricity guzzlers. Also, not sure if CN has completely switched off Nvidia or still using them for training.

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

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gemini is worse imo

You're correct, Gemini chat limits are a joke at their chapest paid tier compared to both Claude and GPT. Especially crazy when you consider Gemini 3 Pro is more than twice as cheap as Opus 4.6 on the API. It's hard to run into pure chat limits on Claude even if you only use Opus on the cheapest tier, whereas with Gemini it's easy to hit. Not sure about coding usage, Google being weird about these things I could see…

I’m not sure what A/B test you’re part of but on Claude Code Pro, I hit every single one of my quotas without exception. If you analyze/process images it’s even worse: I hit rate limits first and if I use separate sessions, I hit my quotas too. I use up so many tokens that Jensen should hire me.

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

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That's what I wrote? Except that it also clearly has internal bias?

> That's what I wrote? No. You wrote that "you won't hear about Tiananmen square from this model" and atemerev wrote that "the model itself talks fine about Tiananmen". You wrote that "it can easily access any withheld or missing info from training data via tool calls" and atemerev wrote that "the model itself talks fine about Tiananmen".

It has internal bias too and the first comment mentions that additional censoring runs on top of the model output in the API. Did you misread or what else are you missing?

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

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Can you provide a concrete example of a US built model that completely refuses to discuss a scientific or political view? Show us the receipt.

https://imgur.com/a/censorship-much-CBxXOgt (continues after the ad break)

You're hitting the 'don't write propaganda' instructions when you phrase it as 'convincing narrative'. Not the 'don't write bad things about America' instructions.

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

#258

There is some humor in the fact that china (of all countries) is pioneering possibly the world's most important tech via open source, while we (US) are doing the exact opposite.

I think one of the motivations is undermining US companies. OpenAI and Anthropic are the two biggest players, and are American. Open weights models reduce the power those two big players have over the industry. If the Chinese companies tried to play by US rules and close-source their products then people would mostly use ChatGPT and Claude. So the Chinese companies don't make a ton of profit either way, but by releasing the models as open weights they can at least keep the US from making as much profit.

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

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Accessed via OpenRouter, this one decided to wrap the SVG pelican in HTML with controls for the animation speed: https://gisthost.github.io/?ecaad98efe0f747e27bc0e0ebc669e94... Transcript and HTML here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/ecaad98efe0f747e27bc0e0ebc669...

was part of the beta, its properly good model, in some sense i forgot that im not on opus or gpt. opus is still better. gpt is the one struggling for me. it has some niche in backend work but you can get the same with opus with skills, its lacking in almost all others.

Funny, for me Opus is struggling since about February.

4.7 made no difference, so for the first time in many moons I am cancelling my subscription.

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

#260

There is some humor in the fact that china (of all countries) is pioneering possibly the world's most important tech via open source, while we (US) are doing the exact opposite.

I think one of the motivations is undermining US companies. OpenAI and Anthropic are the two biggest players, and are American. Open weights models reduce the power those two big players have over the industry. If the Chinese companies tried to play by US rules and close-source their products then people would mostly use ChatGPT and Claude. So the Chinese companies don't make a ton of profit either way, but by releas…

I am actually wondering if they're trying to burst the bubble, which would predominantly affect US market and, effectively, be the end of silicone valley dominance.
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