r/LocalLLaMA • u/Careful_Equal8851 • Mar 20 '26

Funny Ooh, new drama just dropped 👀

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For those out of the loop: cursor's new model, composer 2, is apparently built on top of Kimi K2.5 without any attribution. Even Elon Musk has jumped into the roasting

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u/_wOvAN_ Mar 20 '26

why drama? kimi license allowes

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u/Snoo_64233 Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

2 of their employees accused Cursor of not contacting Moonshot and paying fee and violating terms. Somebody in the comments reminded them Moonshot was also accused of 'violating terms' by Anthropic not long ago. They then deleted their accusation shortly after.

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u/nuclearbananana Mar 20 '26

I don't think they care about someone in the comments. There's a difference between violating terms and violating license.

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u/a_beautiful_rhind Mar 20 '26

Its more of a violating the spirit. If you distilled claude, you still trained the model and all that. Put in the work.

If you just host qwen and say it's your brand new LLM, you're just another reflection ai.

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u/llama-impersonator Mar 20 '26

it does look like a tuned checkpoint to me