Running 300 AI agents on your laptop sounds like a recipe for a very expensive space heater. But Moonshot AI is betting it’s actually the future of knowledge work.
The Beijing-based AI firm launched Kimi Work on June 9-10, a desktop application powered by its new Kimi K2.6 model that can coordinate up to 300 specialized sub-agents operating in parallel on a user’s local machine. That’s a threefold increase from the 100-agent ceiling of its predecessor, Kimi K2.5.
What Kimi Work actually does
Each sub-agent handles a specific slice of a larger workflow: research, document creation, coding, data analysis, browser automation.
The K2.6 model underneath is a 1-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts architecture. Instead of running one massive neural network for every task, the system activates only the relevant “expert” sub-networks for each job. This is what makes running hundreds of agents on local hardware feasible rather than purely theoretical.
