Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What you need to know Released 12 June 2026 by Moonshot AI: Kimi K2.7-Code, a 1-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts coding model with 32B active parameters per token. Open weights, modified MIT licence — published on Hugging Face, so you can self-host on AWS Mumbai, AWS London, or on-prem for data residency. MCP-first and tool-use heavy — it is built to slot into Model Context Protocol agent loops rather than to chat. Cheap API — $0.95 per million input tokens, $4.00 per million output, with a new HighSpeed inference mode. The one caveat that matters — Moonshot skipped independent benchmark submission. Every score below is vendor-reported. There is no third-party SWE-bench Verified result yet. Watch out Kimi K2.7-Code skipped independent benchmark submission. The headline gains —…
