{"slug": "kilo-code-ai-says-minimax-m3-matched-claude-opus-4-8-on-a-code-audit-for-0-07", "title": "Kilo Code AI says MiniMax M3 matched Claude Opus 4.8 on a code audit for $0.07", "summary": "Kilo Code AI announced Saturday that its MiniMax M3 model matched Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 on a code audit test, detecting 13 of 17 planted bugs for $0.07. The open source AI coding assistant company, founded by Scott Breitenother and Sytse Sijbrandij, demonstrated the cost efficiency of its model compared to Anthropic's cheapest Claude Opus run.", "body_md": "Kilo Code AI (@kilocode), the open source AI coding assistant company founded by Scott Breitenother and Sytse Sijbrandij, said Saturday in a nine post thread on X that MiniMax M3 matched Anthropic's cheapest Claude Opus 4.8 run on a code audit test at a fraction of the cost, finding 13 of 17 planted bugs for $0.07. The company provides an AI coding agent that runs inside development environments including Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDEs. Its platform can generate code from natural langu...", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kilo-code-ai-says-minimax-m3-matched-claude-opus-4-8-on-a-code-audit-for-0-07", "canonical_source": "https://runtimewire.com/article/kilo-code-ai-says-minimax-m3-matched-claude-opus-4-8-on-a-code-audit-for-0-07", "published_at": "2026-06-06 19:06:35+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-06 19:36:11.711574+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-startups", "ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Kilo Code AI", "MiniMax M3", "Claude Opus 4.8", "Anthropic", "Scott Breitenother", "Sytse Sijbrandij", "Visual Studio Code", "JetBrains IDEs"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kilo-code-ai-says-minimax-m3-matched-claude-opus-4-8-on-a-code-audit-for-0-07", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kilo-code-ai-says-minimax-m3-matched-claude-opus-4-8-on-a-code-audit-for-0-07.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kilo-code-ai-says-minimax-m3-matched-claude-opus-4-8-on-a-code-audit-for-0-07.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/kilo-code-ai-says-minimax-m3-matched-claude-opus-4-8-on-a-code-audit-for-0-07.jsonld"}}