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KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev: The 35B Mixture-of-Experts Model Built for Autonomous Coding Agents
Kwaipilot’s KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev is an Apache-2.0 open-weight agentic coding model with 35 billion total parameters and only 3 billion activated parameters. Designed for software-engineering agents, it supports up to 262K tokens of context and delivers strong results across SWE-bench, Terminal-Bench, PinchBench, and KAT-Code-Bench.
Qwen3-Coder-Next: The 80B Coding Model That Activates Only 3B Parameters
Qwen3-Coder-Next is Qwen’s open-weight coding model built specifically for autonomous coding agents and local development. With 80B total parameters but only 3B activated per token, a 256K context window, strong tool-calling, and support for long-horizon coding tasks, it delivers unusually high coding-agent performance without activating the full model on every inference.
Top 10 AI Coding Assistants in 2026: The Ultimate Developer Guide
We tested 15+ AI coding assistants for 3 months. Here are the top 10 tools that actually boost productivity in 2026, with pricing, benchmarks and honest verdicts.
Cursor vs VS Code + Copilot in 2026: Which Should You Choose?
An honest, hands-on comparison between Cursor AI and VS Code with GitHub Copilot. Performance, features, pricing, and which wins for different developers.
Best AI Coding Tools in 2026
Forty hours inside real repositories with GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor, and Aider. A detailed comparison of the best AI coding tools — with the benchmarks to back it up.