Moonshot's Kimi K2.6 Takes Top Open-Weights Spot on Intelligence Index

The Chinese AI lab's new mixture-of-experts model landed at #4 overall on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index — the highest ever for an open-weights model — closing the gap with proprietary competitors.

Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6 is now the leading open-weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, landing at #4 overall with a score of 54, as @ArtificialAnlys reported. The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture and reportedly excels in agentic tasks with low hallucination rates.

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