When Clement Delangue, the CEO of Hugging Face, called Kimi K2.6 a standout open-source model on the day of its release, the AI procurement conversation shifted. Not because a Chinese model was competitive — Kimi's K2 family and DeepSeek had already proved that point — but because of what competitive now costs. 📖 Read the full version with charts and embedded sources on ComputeLeap → Kimi K2.6,