Kilo Code launched a native plugin for JetBrains IDEs, rebuilt from scratch in Kotlin with Swing UI to replace its previous webview-based extension. The plugin offers chat sessions, slash commands, re…
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5, its most agentic mid-tier model, now available in Kilo Code via OpenRouter and direct API. The model achieves 63.2% on SWE-bench Pro and edges past Opus 4.8 on know…
Kilo Code offers a free AI coding setup using Auto Free for chat, Mistral's free Codestral API key for autocomplete, and a free model for background tasks, eliminating costs for personal projects. For…
Augment is sunsetting its IDE extensions for JetBrains, giving users about a month's notice, and moving upmarket to enterprise teams with its Cosmos agent platform. The decision has disappointed many …
Kilo Code launched an open-source agentic engineering platform that integrates with VS Code, JetBrains, and the CLI, offering specialized AI agents for coding, planning, debugging, and code review. Th…
Kilo Code published a model test Saturday comparing Claude Fable 5 and ChatGPT 5.5, finding Claude Fable 5 strongest at planning, but the model is already offline due to a U.S. export control directiv…
Software engineer Christiaan Arnoldus is responsible for integrating over 500 AI models into Kilo Code, handling API changes and shipping support quickly as new models are released almost weekly. Base…
Kilo launched Coding Plans, starting with MiniMax, allowing users to purchase token plans directly through their Kilo balance for use across Kilo Code products and the Kilo Gateway. The feature aims t…
Kilo Code released Agent Manager, a full-screen workspace that runs multiple AI agents in parallel within isolated git worktrees, preventing file overwrites and merge conflicts. The tool, accessible f…
Kilo Code has reintroduced codebase indexing for semantic code search, requiring users to configure an embedding provider and vector store before enabling the feature. The indexing system parses code …
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550-billion-parameter open-weights model, for free use in Kilo Code for a limited time. The model, announced by CEO Jensen Huang at Computex 2026, is the top open m…
Kilo Gateway now supports 20 bring-your-own-key (BYOK) providers, allowing users to route their existing API keys from DeepSeek, xAI, Anthropic, and OpenAI through its platform without any markup. The…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Kilo Code with a 20% discount on inference. The new model delivers a 90.5% score on PinchBench, runs at 2.5x speed in Fast Mode at one-third the cost of…
Kilo Code, an open-source coding agent that began as a VS Code extension, has surpassed 3 million downloads and processed over 40 trillion tokens in its first year. The project's rapid growth exposed …
XAI released Grok Build 0.1, a new coding model priced at $1 per 1M input tokens and $2 per 1M output tokens with a 256K context window. The model planned and built a working webhook delivery service …
Kilo Gateway now supports Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) across 20 providers and 24 plans, including DeepSeek, xAI, Anthropic, and OpenAI, allowing users to use their own API keys and be billed directly by…
Kilo Code users can now log in with their X Premium+ or SuperGrok subscription to access Grok models directly within the platform, eliminating the need for a separate API key. The integration includes…
Kilo Code, an open-source software (OSS) project, is launching on the Product Hunt platform. The launch was announced on May 23, inviting users to join and support the product's debut on the site.…
Kilo Code released eight new websites built with Grok Build 0.1, testing the AI model's ability to handle interactivity, design, and humor in web development. The experiments produced functional sites…
TokenZip v2 is a token compression engine that reduces LLM input token costs by up to 95% for coding copilots like Claude Code and Codex by transforming an entire codebase into a multi-level, queryabl…