An open source model has returned to #1 on the 3D Design leaderboard by Design Arena.
Kimi K2.6 has reached the top of the leaderboard for 3D Design, ahead of models 10X more expensive like Opus 4.7 by @AnthropicAI, Gemini 3.5 Flash by @GoogleDeepMind, and GPT 5.5 by @OpenAI. This is an 18 position increase from its previous model Kimi K2.5.
In fact, it’s not just Kimi K2.6 - 3D Design is a striking outlier capability that’s mostly dominated by open-weight models, like GLM 5.1 by @Zai_org, MiMo v2.5 by @Xiaomi, amongst others.
Congrats on the @Kimi_Moonshot team for this accomplishment!