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Exploring Next — Ep 306 w/ Justy & Cody — Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2.6, Beats Top US Models On Some Benchmarks

Justy and Cody dig into why Kimi K2.6 matters right now: not because of a flashy leaderboard screenshot, but because it appears unusually strong at the stuff teams actually pay for — coding work, tool use, and long-running task execution. They unpack the benchmark wins, the 12-to-13-hour autonomous coding demos, the scaled-up agent swarm design, and what Moonshot seems to be optimizing for. They end with concrete things to try if you want to test this class of model yourself.

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