Hey Lobsters, welcome to this 7th edition of ShanghAI.

The goal of this weekly newsletter is to share my latest discoveries on Chinese AI models, that I dig directly from Chinese tech forums and WeChat accounts to provide you with exclusive insights.

Late last night, April 20th, Moonshot AI dropped the nuclear option. Kimi K2.6 is now fully open-source.

We’ve officially moved from AI assistants to AI Swarms.

Kimi K2.6 is a 1-Trillion parameter MoE (Mixture of Experts) beast. While other models brag about their chat skills, Moonshot focused on "Long-Horizon Execution."

This model can coordinate up to 300 sub-agents working in parallel for over 4,000 collaborative steps.

The stats are terrifying for the competition: it’s currently #1 worldwide on Humanity’s Last Exam (PhD-level logic) and crushes GPT-5.4 in coding benchmarks (SWE-Bench Pro: 58.6%).

Kimi K2.6 can self-learn a rare programming language (like Zig) and optimize an entire financial engine's throughput by 185% in 14 iterations. It’s the first model that can work autonomously for 5+ days without you touching a single key.

You can leverage Kimi K2.6 right now to replace an entire software agency with a single Agent Cluster that handles planning, research, debugging, and deployment autonomously.

This creates a massive opportunity for businesses to build complex prototypes, from 3D interactive games to full-scale Web/App UIs, in under 3 minutes for a cost that is practically zero compared to human labor.

The workflow is revolutionary because of the MoonViT 400M vision engine: you can simply show Kimi a hand-drawn sketch or a video of a competitor's app, and the 300-agent cluster will split the work, modeling the assets and writing the code in parallel.

The ROI is absolute: instead of a $50k development contract that takes 3 months, Kimi K2.6 delivers a functional MVP in 180 seconds. You're basically deploying a high-speed factory that plans its own strategy and executes it with a 92.5% accuracy rate in complex research tasks.

The only thing stopping most people from using Kimi K2.6 is the massive "China Wall" - the annoying Chinese phone number requirements, VPN lags, and broken setups that waste hours of your time.

I’ve spent the last weeks testing a specific workaround that lets you bypass the entire verification process and get the English interface running on your phone or laptop in under five minutes.

To showcase you that, I’ve developed a unique platform that lets you interact with all the unknown models I discuss in my newsletter.

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