An open-weight model just topped a real coding leaderboard, beating the closed flagships
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Every open-weights post I've written this month came with the same asterisk: impressive, but not actually at the frontier, or not runnable, or the good license was on the small model. Kimi K3 is the one that drops the capability asterisk. It sits at #1 on Arena's frontend-code leaderboard — 1679, a…
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- 2026-08-25 02:42 · DEV Community — AI
An open-weight model just topped a real coding leaderboard, beating the closed flagships