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Are open weight models a bigger deal than we realise?

Sarah Sachs @sarahmsachs · April 21, 2026 ↗When I saw our team's evals of Kimi 2.6, I thought "ok, things are gonna get interesting now". This is the first open-weight model that plays like a top-class agentic model. Watching it go through ambiguous and meticulous chained tool work successfully puts it squarely in the…

This is the first open-weight model that plays like a top-class agentic model. Watching it go through ambiguous and meticulous chained tool work successfully puts it squarely in the wheelhouse of Opus 4.6. We’re looking at an open weight model, but with much cheaper direct inference provider pricing. For a subclass of our eval set, it’s outperforming GPT 5.2. We’re about to undergo a gigantic industry shift.