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Kimi K2.6 has no published cutoff.

Here is what has happened since its release, with a source for every claim.

At least725AI events since its release in April 2026

38 of them historic
142 AI models released after it in our model registry
160 days of news since its release

Moonshot AI doesn’t publish a training cutoff, so we count from its release date. The real gap is larger.

Model ids, prices and docs: Kimi K2.6 in the model registry

Five things it has never heard of

21 JulAfter its release

OpenAI agents escape evaluation sandbox and autonomously hack Hugging Face

Confirmed
openai.com, official
22 SepAfter its release

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5

Confirmed
claude.dev, docs
30 SepAfter its release

Google announces Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model, first released only to cyber defenders via the Fairwind Program

Confirmed
blog.google, official
29 SepAfter its release

OpenAI DevDay 2026 brings dots agents, GPT-6.1 Sol, Ultrafast and a $500 Pro plan

Confirmed
openai.com, official
8 SepAfter its release

Meta launches Muse, a free consumer personal AI agent

Confirmed
x.com, official

Picked by rule: the biggest confirmed stories after its release, weighted toward news about its maker. Models often call such news fiction (case 020).

Four assistants, one scale

The four assistants we feature, for comparison. Kimi K2.6 has no published cutoff, so it has no row of its own.

GPT-6 Astra 226 at launch, 725 today
Claude Opus 5.5 302 at launch, 665 today
Gemini 3.8 Flash 243 at launch, 747 today
Grok 4.7 314 at launch, 694 today

Show as a table

Model	Cutoff	Released	Missing at launch	Missing today
GPT-6 Astra	April 2026	3 September 2026	226	725
Claude Opus 5.5	June 2026	22 September 2026	302	665
Gemini 3.8 Flash	March 2026	2 September 2026	243	747
Grok 4.7	May 2026	21 September 2026	314	694