Kimi K2.6 to be Released Soon, Official Email Confirms New Model Codename

According to 1M AI News's monitoring, the AI programming tool Kimi Code, under the Dark Side of the Moon, sent an email to Beta testers announcing the end of the early access program for this period. The email confirmed for the first time that the model used by testers is K2.6-code-preview and stated that the team is making final adjustments based on feedback, with this model set to be open to all users soon.

Prior to this, Beta testers had noticed a significant improvement in the performance of the internal testing model compared to K2.5, especially in terms of reasoning depth and Agent planning capability. However, the console still displays K2.5, leading to continuous speculation in the community about whether the new model is K2.6 or K3. This email marks the first official confirmation that K2.6 is set to be released. Kimi Code was launched simultaneously with K2.5 in January of this year.