Kilo has been named a finalist in SiliconANGLE's 2026 TechForward Awards, AI Coding & Developer Assistants category, alongside Postman API Platform and SonarQube, with winners announced September 14. The post highlights Kilo's stats: over 5 million developer installs, support across VS Code, JetBrains, CLI, Cloud Agents, Slack, iOS, and Android, MIT-licensed agent runtime, routing across 500+ models at provider rates, and enterprise-level model governance controls. It also notes a shift in token usage from 15.5% open-weight models to 79.1% by July 2026, and Kilo's July 2026 acquisition by Anaconda.
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What percentage of token usage on Kilo shifted from proprietary to open-weight AI models in 2026?
Open-weight model usage on Kilo rose from 15.5% of token usage to 79.1% by the week of July 20, 2026, while proprietary model usage fell from the remaining majority to 20.9% over the same period. This reflects a rapid shift in developer preference toward open-weight models on the platform. Developers weighing open-weight versus proprietary models can track shifts like this one on daily.dev.
When did Anaconda acquire Kilo Code?
Anaconda acquired Kilo in July 2026. Anaconda is used by 95% of the Fortune 500 and has more than 52 million users on its platform, positioning Kilo's open source agentic coding tools within a large enterprise-scale distribution channel. Track acquisitions reshaping AI coding tool choices for enterprise teams on daily.dev.