This update makes Kimi K2.6 the strongest open multimodal AI model. (No affiliation with Kimi.)
Here's the aggregated AI benchmark comparison for K2.6 vs Opus 4.6 (max effort).
- Agentic: Kimi wins 5. Opus wins 5.
- Coding: Kimi wins 5. Opus wins 1.
- Reasoning & knowledge: Kimi wins 1. Opus wins 4.
- Vision: Kimi wins 9. Opus wins 0.
Please note that the model publisher chooses their benchmarks, so there's a bias here. Most coding and reasoning & knowledge benchmarks in their list are pretty standard though.
Here's the aggregated AI benchmark comparison for K2.6 vs Opus 4.6 (max effort).
- Agentic: Kimi wins 5. Opus wins 5.
- Coding: Kimi wins 5. Opus wins 1.
- Reasoning & knowledge: Kimi wins 1. Opus wins 4.
- Vision: Kimi wins 9. Opus wins 0.
Please note that the model publisher chooses their benchmarks, so there's a bias here. Most coding and reasoning & knowledge benchmarks in their list are pretty standard though.