Timeline
Moonshot AI partners with state-owned bank to launch world's first AI-native credit card via Kimi
Alibaba and Nanjing University published paper claiming 9.36X speedup for million-token prefill
Released Kimi WebBridge browser extension
Launched first external partnership for Qwen AI app with China Eastern Airlines for flight booking integration
Released Qwen3.6-27B, a dense 27B parameter model that surpasses its previous 397B MoE model on coding benchmarks.
Released the Kimi 2.6 Thinking open-weights reasoning model
Researchers developed DCW (Diffusion Correction in Wavelet domain), a method to fix SNR-t misalignment bias in diffusion models, improving performance for models like FLUX and EDM.
Released the open-source coding model Kimi K2.6, achieving top scores on SWE-Bench Pro and HumanEval with Tools benchmarks.
Moved Qwen 3.6 Plus model to API-only access, adopting a paid frontier model strategy.
Released Qwen 3.6, a free, open-weights AI model for local deployment and coding
Ecosystem
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Evidence (8 articles)
Alibaba's Qwen3.6-Plus Reportedly Under Half the Size of Kimi K2.5, Nears Claude Opus 4.5 Performance
Apr 4, 2026Moonshot AI, State Bank Launch First AI-Native Credit Card in China
Jun 13, 2026The Coordination Crisis: Why LLMs Fail at Simultaneous Decision-Making
Feb 17, 2026Beyond Recognition: New Framework Forces AI to Prove Its Physical Reasoning Through Code
Feb 17, 2026CoreWeave Tops Kimi K2.6 Inference Speed
May 11, 2026The Quantization Paradox: How Compressing Multimodal AI Impacts Reliability
Feb 17, 2026Moonshot AI's Kimi WebBridge Lets Agent Use Your Logged-In Sessions
May 20, 2026Moonshot AI's $10 Billion Ambition Signals China's Generative AI Ascent
Feb 17, 2026