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title: "Kilo Is a Finalist in the 2026 SiliconANGLE TechForward Awards"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/kilo-is-a-finalist-in-the-2026-siliconangle-techforward-awards-qohgipumg
source_url: https://blog.kilo.ai/p/finalist-in-2026-siliconangle-techforward-awards
type: article
source: "Kilo Blog"
published: 2026-08-26T05:21:51.882Z
updated: 2026-08-26T05:23:22.601Z
tags: ["open-source"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Kilo Is a Finalist in the 2026 SiliconANGLE TechForward Awards

**[Kilo Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/kilo-ai-blog)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

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.

## Full article

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## Questions this post answers

### 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._

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