Chinese Open-Weight Coding LLMs: 2026's Three-Week Sweep
May 11, 2026
In 17 days, GLM-5.1, Kimi K2.6, and DeepSeek V4 shipped frontier-tier open-weight coding LLMs at a fraction of Western prices. Inside the April 2026 wave.
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FlashKDA: Moonshot's CUTLASS Kernel for Kimi Linear (2026)
May 2, 2026
Moonshot open-sourced FlashKDA, a CUTLASS CUDA kernel for Kimi Delta Attention. Drop-in for flash-linear-attention with up to 2.22x prefill speedup on H20 GPUs.
Kimi K2.6: Open-Weight 300-Agent Swarm Tops GPT-5.4 (2026)
April 27, 2026
Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6 (April 20, 2026): a 1T-parameter open-weight MoE that orchestrates 300 sub-agents and tops GPT-5.4 on SWE-Bench Pro at 58.6%.