Timeline
Anthropic reportedly seeking $2B at a $30-40B valuation
Moonshot AI partners with state-owned bank to launch world's first AI-native credit card via Kimi
Launched /loop command enabling autonomous multi-agent workflows in Claude Code
Released Claude Fable 5 migration docs warning that old skills degrade output quality
Anthropic published research showing Claude Sonnet 4 fails biology retrieval, missing Ebola sequences
Anthropic is reportedly seeking $2B at a $30-40B valuation
Published paper 'Why Larger Models Learn More' with Stanford, MIT, Harvard
Released Kimi WebBridge browser extension
Released the Kimi 2.6 Thinking open-weights reasoning model
Released the open-source coding model Kimi K2.6, achieving top scores on SWE-Bench Pro and HumanEval with Tools benchmarks.
Ecosystem
Moonshot AI
Anthropic
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, 2026Anthropic Exposes Massive AI Model Theft Operation Targeting Claude
Feb 23, 2026Cursor's Composer 2.5 matches Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5 at fraction of cost
May 18, 2026Moonshot AI Ships Trillion-Parameter Open Model, Matches Claude Opus on Coding
Apr 22, 2026Anthropic's Distillation Allegations Reveal AI's Uncharted Legal Frontier
Feb 24, 2026The AI Espionage Frontier: Anthropic Exposes Systematic Claude Data Extraction by Chinese AI Labs
Feb 23, 2026Kimi 2.6 Thinking Shows Promise as Open Weights Model, Lags Behind Closed SoTA
Apr 21, 2026Moonshot AI's Kimi WebBridge Lets Agent Use Your Logged-In Sessions
May 20, 2026