Moonshot AI's new Kimi K2.6 swarms your complex tasks with 1,000 collaborating agents

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• Moonshot AI pushes autonomous coding to new limits.
• AI designs and builds full-stack apps from prompts.
• Persistent agents run for days, handling real operations.

Yesterday, Moonshot AI announced Kimi K2.6, the latest version of its open-source AI model. This release has enhanced coding capabilities, long multi-step operation execution, and agent swarm capabilities (which doesn't sound terrifying at all).

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Improvements in long-horizon coding performance

At the core of the Kimi K2.6 release is a substantial improvement in long-horizon coding performance. Long-horizon coding is ...