Has anyone noticed that the behavior of the Kimi model has changed?

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA 06/12/26, 09:00 AM Models

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Summary

A user observes that the Kimi K2.6 model's chain-of-thought has become shorter and more concise, improving coding performance in Kimi Code, and expresses hope for continued open-source competition with upcoming GLM 5.2 and Fable 5.

I have been using Kimi K2.6 in Kimi Code for a while. Although it can complete most tasks, it often requires a long time to think and try. Today the model's CoT has become very short and concise, and it feels much improved on coding tasks compared to before I heard that GLM 5.2 is also about to be released. I hope Chinese models can continue to be open-sourced to compete with Fable 5

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