Kilo launched Auto Efficient, a new AI model routing tier that dynamically selects the most cost-effective model for each task based on real-time session classification and benchmark data. The system …
Kilo announced Next-Edit, a feature powered by Inception's Mercury Edit 2 model that predicts code edits based on context, and is making it free for all users for one month. The diffusion LLM architec…
Terminal Bench completion scores and per-attempt costs now appear directly in the Kilo CLI and VS Code extension model details panel, providing real benchmark data where developers choose models. The …
Anthropic disabled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally after a US export control directive, leaving millions of users without access to top-tier AI models. The incident highlights the risk of relying on a s…
Kilo launched Kilo for GitHub, an AI agent that lives inside GitHub and can be @mentioned in issues, pull requests, and review comments to answer questions, triage bugs, and open pull requests without…
Kilo has partnered with Swedish AI infrastructure provider Inceptron to offer high-performance inference for open-weight models hosted in the EU, prioritizing data sovereignty and GDPR compliance. The…
Kilo, an AI coding platform, introduces four levers to help teams control AI spending as vendors like GitHub Copilot and Anthropic shift to usage-based pricing, causing bills to spike. The levers incl…
Kilo AI launched the Kilo Console (Beta), a local browser-based interface for managing git worktrees, sessions, and project settings without editing JSON config files. The tool, accessible via the com…
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…
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, its most powerful and autonomous AI model to date, now available in Kilo. The model can independently self-prompt, browse, write code, test outputs, and navigate ope…
KiloBench launched as a new evaluation framework that measures AI coding models based on real-world production cost and performance rather than benchmark scores. The tool emerged after its creators fo…
A product owner, not an engineer, drove the most significant AI adoption at Swedish home care software company IntraPhone. Robert Lindgren built a proof-of-concept system alone using AI tool Kilo in D…
Kilo launched a new Architect agent in its Marketplace that uses the Grill-Me skill to interrogate users about ambiguous requirements before generating plans. The agent asks clarifying questions about…
Roo Code, an open-source coding agent with 3 million installs, shut down on May 15th as its team pivoted to a cloud agent called Roomote, stating that IDEs are not the future of coding. The same week,…
StepFun and MiniMax released new open-weight AI models over the weekend, with StepFun launching Step 3.7 Flash under a permissive Apache 2.0 license and MiniMax preparing to release the weights for it…
Most professional software engineers have not yet adopted advanced AI coding tools, according to conversations with hundreds of developers at the Open Source Summit North America in Minneapolis. Staff…
Seven senior software engineers at Kilo who build and use AI coding agents report that running 2-4 "foreground" agents in parallel is the productive sweet spot, contradicting claims of managing 50-100…
Kilo launched seven AI automations for marketers that use Cloud Agents with Webhook Triggers to perform tasks like competitor mention tracking and campaign asset generation, replacing manual work with…
XAI quietly released Grok Build 0.1, a new coding model optimized for autonomous software engineering workflows, during a week when the company also disclosed $6.4 billion in infrastructure spending. …