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2026-06-15 moonshot

Kimi K2.7-Code Goes Open: The Fight Among Open Coding Models Is Moving From Scores to Token Cost

Moonshot AI open-sourced Kimi K2.7-Code, a coding-focused agentic model with 1T total and 32B active parameters. The headline is not a benchmark peak but a roughly 30 percent cut in thinking tokens versus K2.6. It still trails GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 across the major coding and agentic boards, yet it pushes the good-enough plus cheap plus self-hostable path another step forward. The real bottleneck is still the lack of a usable English CLI.

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