Kimi K2.6 just shipped open-weight: Claude-level coding at 76% the cost, with a 300-agent swarm as the real story
The Neuron
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Moonshot AI dropped Kimi K2.6 on Monday: a 1-trillion-parameter open-source model that matches Claude Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks, runs 76% cheaper, ships Day-0 on Cloudflare, and coordinates 300 AI agents across 4,000 steps. Here's what it actually unlocks, and whether you should care.