Mercor, a $10 billion AI training startup, is reverting to whiteboard interviews and ditching take-home assignments that can be completed with AI, according to head of product Osvald Nitski on the "20…
Stripe is in talks to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for $10 billion, signaling that model choice and routing are becoming essential infrastructure for AI development. Anthropic released Clau…
Kilo announced that Ling 3.0 Flash, the latest model from inclusionAI (Ant Group), is now available on its platform and free for a limited time. The model features 124B total parameters with only ~5.1…
Kilo's Agent Manager, a built-in feature of its VS Code extension, and Orca, a standalone desktop app, both use git worktrees to run parallel AI coding agents, but differ in integration and review too…
Kilo has introduced Kilo Memory, a local, project-scoped memory system for AI coding agents that stores session digests, project environment details, user corrections, and explicit memory updates to s…
Poolside's Laguna S 2.1, a 118B parameter model activating only 8B per token, is now available on Kilo for free for a limited time. The model achieves 78.5% on SWE-bench Multilingual and 49.7% on Tool…
Kilo, the AI coding agent, can now test its own VS Code extension and CLI end-to-end by driving the product and observing results, closing the loop between code generation and verification. The self-t…
Kilo users can now match skills to models by building custom agents that bundle a model, system prompt, and tool permissions into a single profile, enabling one-keystroke switching between agents like…
Meta, Kat Coder (KwaiPilot), and Moonshot AI released new AI models this week, all available on the Kilo platform. Kat Coder launched Pro v2.5 and Air v2.5, with Pro free for a week, featuring a new a…
Lithuanian health-tech company Kilo, after laying off 100 employees in 2023, pivoted to a venture studio model and now reports a €404 million valuation by leveraging artificial intelligence.…
Anaconda, a provider of governed open-source packages and environments for enterprises, has acquired Kilo, a popular open-source coding agent that is not tied to any single model maker. The acquisitio…
Kilo has rebuilt credential handling for its Cloud Agents so that real GitHub and Kilo tokens never enter the sandbox, replacing them with short-lived, sandbox-specific capability tokens that are inte…
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 models, including Sol, Terra, and Luna, integrated into Kilo. Sol achieved 75% on KiloBench and 80 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, surpassing Claude Fable 5. The…
Tencent released the General Availability version of its Hy3 AI model, now free for a limited time on the Kilo platform. The 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model features improved reasoning, reduce…
Enterprise AI coding adoption has shifted from experimentation to infrastructure, with cost control and usage visibility becoming top priorities. At Gartner's summit, attendees focused on managing spi…
Talon, an open-source agentic AI harness, launched with support for Telegram, Discord, Microsoft Teams, and terminal, offering pluggable backends including Claude Agent SDK, Kilo, OpenCode, Codex, and…
A 2026 guide compares AI coding subscriptions, highlighting a shift to credit-based pricing. Platforms like OpenCode, Kilo, and GitHub Copilot offer varying plans, with OpenCode Go at $10/month and Ki…
Kilo shipped six enterprise features during Focus Week, including feature adoption tracking, agent sandboxing, sub-organization management, Bitbucket and Jira integration, auto-efficient model routing…
Kilo launched its Agency Partner Program to help agencies and consultancies deliver agentic engineering solutions to clients. The program offers three tiers—Foundation, Advanced, and Enterprise—and in…
Kilo released a major upgrade to its Cloud Agents, adding personal GitHub attribution, repository-specific profiles, PR status visibility, and remote session support. The updates transform the agents …