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From: Kilo Team <hi@news.kilocode.ai>
Sent: Wednesday, 17 June 2026 14:54:53
To: Drury, Chris <chrisdrury@edinarealty.com>
Subject: Kilo Weekly: $500 GitHub Star Giveaway  
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Hey there! 
This week is about helping more developers find Kilo, while keeping a clear eye on where AI coding is heading: compute, cost control, model freedom, and production resilience. 
🌟 GitHub Star Giveaway: $1000 in Prizes
Star our repo for a chance to win $500 in Kilo Credits, and to help more devs find Kilo. Two winners will be picked on June 24th.
One mouse click to enter! 
Star us here → 
🚀 SpaceX, Cursor, and the new AI coding economics 
The reported $60B SpaceX-Cursor deal is about compute, data, and distribution. Cursor has the developer workflow; SpaceX has the compute ambition. 
The takeaway: vendor incentives matter. Kilo keeps your workflow flexible as compute, pricing, and model access keep shifting. 
Read the SpaceX-Cursor analysis → 
⚽ Can you outpick the AIs? 
Kilo WorldCupBench pits fans against AI models. Make your 2026 World Cup picks, then compare your accuracy against Kimi, MiniMax, Nemotron, and DeepSeek. 
Every model gets the same data through Kilo Gateway. Results update after matches, with leaderboards for your picks, the fan consensus, and the model panel. 
Make your WorldCupBench picks → 
🇪🇺 Kilo partners with Inceptron for EU inference 
Fast, secure open-weight models are now available through Inceptron. Kilo users can route inference through EU-hosted infrastructure built for speed, data residency, GDPR alignment, and production AI workloads. 
Use it through Kilo Gateway or BYOK. Supported models include Kimi K2.6, GLM 5.1, and MiniMax M2.5 across the Kilo ecosystem. 
Read the Inceptron partnership post → 
💸 The GitHub Copilot bill came due 
Usage-based AI billing is here. Copilot’s June 1 pricing shift turned a fixed line item into a variable cost. 
The problem is predictability. Teams need transparent usage, model choice, BYOK, and governance before overages start. 
Read what leaders should do → 
🎛️ Four levers for taking control of AI spend 
Winning teams will not use agents less. They will match models to jobs, track tokens, govern usage, and reduce wasted context. 
Kilo has those levers built in. Use 500+ models, usage analytics, pooled credits, access controls, worktrees, subagents, and codebase indexing. 
See the four spend levers → 
🧭 You don’t have to use Fable and Mythos to work on the frontier 
The frontier did not disappear with Fable and Mythos. GPT-5.5, Nemotron 3 Ultra, MiniMax M3, and Kimi K2.7 Code show how broad the model field is. 
Reliability is a production feature. Kilo Gateway, BYOK, and model switching keep teams resilient when model access changes. 
Read the model freedom post → Explore Kilo Gateway → 
🙌 Shoutout to our contributors this week! 
@IamCoder18  •   @singhvishalkr  •   @truffle-dev  •   @cooper-oai  •   @Githubguy132010  •   @idreesmuhammadqazi-create  •   @kapelame  •   @senguangd  •   @vkeerthivikram 
See you next week!
— The Kilo Team 
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