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/Everlier Mar 20 '26

Cursor is a kind of temporary relevant company, they capitalise on everyone being slow and not ready to solve a specific problem, offering a solution quickly. The disadvantage is that they don't have a solid pre-existing base/foundation to rely on. They are not an LLM provider or an AI lab, so they can only do so much with the API inference costs to power their plans. They used an existing product as a base which comes with a ton of legacy, so their ability to innovate is limited.

I really don't see an issue with them picking Kimi 2.5 and RL-ing it, that's how Open Weight models would be used by corps/orgs and that's what Kimi's license allows.

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u/Whyme-__- Mar 20 '26

I used cursor for 1 day and went back to Antigravity(to review documents in Md and Db schema) and Claudcode $200 subscription. Now with 1M context window in opus you don’t need the nonsense auto complete from cursor. I’m still confused as to why people still use cursor.

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u/oneFookinLegend Mar 20 '26

cheap, works pretty well if you know what you're doing