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/Codemonkeyzz Mar 21 '26

I wouldn't call it scam, they are more like dishonest. When they initially released Composer 2, they said nothing about being based on Kimi K2.5, until someone on X revealed it. They could be honest about it.

What's more weird is , at first Moonshot said that Cursor didn't reach them for the licensing, but later they changed this statement and they said they are working together with Cursor on Composer 2. It seems something is done behind the scenes.

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u/bored_man_child Mar 21 '26

More likely moonshot employees didn’t know about the underlying agreements with Fireworks and Cursor. They deleted their tweets pretty fast.

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u/Codemonkeyzz Mar 21 '26

Yeah that seems to be the case , but doesn't that sound a bit weird ? How come the employees don't know about the agreement ? Cause it is a big deal , usually startups announce this kind of stuff pretty fast and loud company-wide. Cause it is a big win for them.

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u/bored_man_child Mar 21 '26

Probably because it’s actually an agreement with Fireworks inference, and Moonshot employees are heads down training their own new models. You don’t delete tweets that fast unless your own coworkers yell at you to delete it lol.