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Kimi-K2.6

Kimi-K2.6 is an open-weight language model from unsloth, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.

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About

What Kimi-K2.6 is

Read our How to Run Kimi K2.6 Guide! Kimi-K2.6 Kimi K2.6 is an open-source, native multimodal agentic model that advances practical capabilities in long-horizon coding, coding-driven design, proactive autonomous execution, and swarm-based task orchestration. Key Features - Long-Horizon Coding: K2.6 achieves significant improvements on complex, end-to-end coding tasks, generalizing robustly across programming languages (Rust, Go, Python) and domains spanning front-end, DevOps, and performance optimization. - Coding-Driven Design: K2.6 is capable of transforming simple prompts and visual inputs into production-ready interfaces and lightweight full-stack workflows, generating structured layouts, interactive elements, and rich animations with deliberate aesthetic precision. - Elevated Agent Swarm: Scaling horizontally to 300 sub-agents executing 4,000 coordinated steps, K2.6 can dynamically decompose tasks into parallel, domain-specialized subtasks, delivering end-to-end outputs from documents to websites to spreadsheets in a single autonomous run. - Proactive & Open Orchestration: For autonomous tasks, K2.6 demonstrates strong performance in powering persistent, 24/7 background agents that proactively manage schedules, execute code, and orchestrate cross-platform operations without human oversight. 2. Model Summary 3. Evaluation Results 1. General Testing Details - We report results for Kimi K2.6 and Kimi K2.5 with thinking mode enabled, Claude Opus 4.6 with max effort, GPT-5.4 with xhigh reasoning effort, and Gemini 3.1 Pro with a high thinking level. - Unless otherwise specified, all Kimi K2.6 experiments were conducted with temperature = 1.0, top-p = 1.0, and a context length of 262,144 tokens. - Benchmarks without publicly available scores were re-evaluated under the same conditions used for Kimi K2.6 and are marked with an asterisk (). Except where noted with an asterisk, all other results are cited from official reports. 2. Reasoning Benchmarks - IMO-AnswerBench scores for GPT-5.4 and Claude 4.6 were obtained from z.ai/blog/glm-5.1. - Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) and other reasoning tasks were evaluated with a maximum generation length of 98,304 tokens. By defa

Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.

Specifications

What it is

Makerunsloth
TypeLanguage models
Variants1
Runs withtransformers
Based onmoonshotai/Kimi-K2.6
Released2026-04-20
Popularity280k downloads / month
Likes176
LicenceCommercial licence needed

How it works

How language models work

Your prompttext / messagesTransformerattention over tokensNext-token loopgenerate + streamResponsetext · tool callsA language model reads your tokens and predicts the next one, again and again, streaming the reply back.

Variants

Sizes & precisions

Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.

VariantParamsPrecisionVRAMFits 16 GBWeights
Kimi-K2.6-GGUFGGUFWeights ↗

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys unsloth-kimi-k2-6 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (unsloth-kimi-k2-6 below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"unsloth-kimi-k2-6","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

Details

Languages, data & research

Tags

transformers gguf compressed-tensors unsloth kimi_k25 image-text-to-text endpoints_compatible deploy:azure conversational

Papers

Licence

Commercial licence needed

The weights are open but its licence needs a commercial agreement for business use. AxForge can arrange that licence and host the model for you — you pay AxForge, we settle with the model’s maker. Ask us for a quote. Read the licence ↗

Sources

Weights & code

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