Is Kimi K2.6 out yet?
Yes.
How we confirmed it
Released via official access
April 20, 2026 at 12:00 AM UTC
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Benchmarks
Coding#7
Kimi K2.6 · via BenchLM.ai · captured Jul 2, 2026 · source
88.9
Agentic#12
Kimi K2.6 · via BenchLM.ai · captured Jul 2, 2026 · source
81
MultimodalGrounded#28
Kimi K2.6 · via BenchLM.ai · captured Jul 2, 2026 · source
71.3
GDP.pdf
Kimi K2.6 · via Epoch AI · captured Jul 2, 2026 · source
12
FrontierCode Diamond
Kimi K2.6 · via Epoch AI · captured Jul 2, 2026 · source
3.8
ExploitBench
Kimi K2.6 · via Epoch AI · captured Jul 2, 2026 · source
18
SWE-Bench Pro#5self-reported
moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 · via Hugging Face · captured Jul 2, 2026 · source
58.6
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Data from Epoch AI, “AI Benchmarking Hub” (CC BY 4.0).
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