Chris Clark

Co-founder & COO @OpenRouterAI

[Chris Clark @cclark]

@mmurph @Forbes Congrats Matt! Well deserved and we are lucky to have you involved at OpenRouter!

[Chris Clark @cclark]

@HotAisle The 'open' originates from our belief that empirical usage is the best benchmark; since inception we have published rankings and data sharing how tokens are being routed across the platform to help builders make decisions about what models to use.

[Chris Clark @cclark]

Companies are very excited to have managers with (thanks to AI) a zillion direct reports. Do we think that is actually *better*, or is it just *cheaper*?

[Chris Clark @cclark]

got this on my LG smart fridge this morning (2027)

[Chris Clark @cclark]

When I’m king, gate numbers will always correspond to how far away they are from the terminal entrance

[Chris Clark @cclark]

This meeting is a waste of my tokens

[roon @tszzl]

people are walking around with their laptops slightly ajar to keep their agents running

[Chris Clark @cclark]

We built a great AI writing detector but unfortunately it’s not very scalable. @pingToven can only read so much :(

[Artificial Analysis @ArtificialAnlys]

Moonshot’s Kimi K2.6 is the new leading open weights model. Kimi K2.6 lands at #4 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (54) behind only Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI (all 57)

Key takeaways:

➤ Increase in performance on agentic tasks: @Kimi_Moonshot's Kimi K2.6 achieves an Elo of 1520 on our GDPval-AA evaluation, which is a marked improvement over Kimi K2.5’s Elo of 1309. GDPval-AA is our leading metric for general agentic performance, measuring the performance on knowledge work tasks such as preparing presentations and analysis. Models are given code execution and web browsing tools in an agentic loop via our open source reference agentic harness called Stirrup. This continues Kimi K2.6’s strength in tool use, maintaining a 96% score on τ²-Bench Telecom, placing it among other frontier models in this category.

➤ Low hallucination rate: Kimi K2.5 scores 6 on the AA-Omniscience Index, our knowledge evaluation measuring both accuracy and hallucination rate. This score is primarily driven by a comparatively low hallucination rate of 39% (reduced from Kimi K2.5’s 65%), indicating a greater capability to abstain rather than fabricate knowledge when the model is uncertain. Kimi K2.6’s low hallucination rate places it similarly to other models such as Claude Opus 4.7 (36%) and MiniMax-M2.7 (34%)

➤ High token usage: Kimi K2.6 demonstrates high token usage, but is in line with other frontier models in the same intelligence tier. To run the full Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, Kimi K2.6 used ~160M reasoning tokens. This is slightly lower than Claude Sonnet 4.6 (~190M reasoning tokens) but much higher than GPT 5.4 (~110M reasoning tokens).

➤ Open weights: Kimi K2.6 is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 1T total parameters and 32B active, same as the previous two generations of models Kimi K2 Thinking and Kimi K2.5. Kimi K2.6 again pushes the open weights frontier in intelligence.

➤ Third Party Access: Kimi K2.6 is accessible through Moonshot’s First Party API as well as third party API providers Novita, Baseten, Fireworks, and Parasail

➤ Multimodality: Kimi K2.6 supports Image and Video input and text output natively. The model’s max context length remains 256k.

Further analysis in the threads below.

[Chris Clark @cclark]

See ya later calculator.
In a while, numberphile.

[Chris Clark @cclark]

@aviel Is this like an elaborate way of saying that I can see right through your bullshit?

[Chris Clark @cclark]

Seems like when most people talk about ARR they really mean ARRR - annualized revenue run-rate. I propose we start using this metric more broadly, and that we distinguish between it and ARR by saying ARRR in a pirate voice.

[Chris Clark @cclark]

The commercial relationship between the labs and clouds is also apples and oranges. The OpenAI/Azure relationship is an IP licensing agreement with a rev share, whereas the Anthropic/Hyperscaler relationships look nothing like that. Therefore they are not accounted for the same way.

[Chris Clark @cclark]

@5rb6jj7wtx @deedydas For sure - but still interesting. The fact that it is written directly means eg you could chuck autoresearch at it 👀 @deedydas

[Chris Clark @cclark]

thanks to coding agents it's never been easier to get started, and never been harder to get finished.

[Chris Clark @cclark]

In a moment of frustration, I banned my 8-year-old from saying “I’m bored” and he now has to say “time to figure out a new activity” and it’s been weirdly effective. Also I’ve threatened to take away dessert if he says it. That also is def part of the success recipe.

[Chris Clark @cclark]

Looks great! I have not read the Chinmayananda version, but I have the Easwaran translation of the Gita and it seems more approachable. Not sure if it's public domain though.

Chinmayananda: What did the sons of Pandu and also my people do when, desirous to fight, they assembled together on the holy plain of Kurukshetra, O Sanjaya?

Easwaran: O Sanjaya, tell me what happened at Kurukshetra, the field of dharma, where my family and the Pandavas gathered to fight.

[Chris Clark @cclark]

If the east wing ballroom had been constructed by Obama, what kind of impact would that have had on the plot of White House Down?