Cursor admits its new coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI’s Kimi

Building on top of a Chinese model feels particularly fraught right now.
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Claude Code and Codex Are Outpacing Cursor Among Notion's Engineers

Software engineers embracing the AI coding revolution don’t have much loyalty to any particular coding tool, especially when a new, better one comes out. In the latest example of that, the growth of ...
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Cursor's Composer 2 was secretly built on a Chinese AI model — and it exposes a deeper problem with Western open-source AI

But the story that matters here is not about one company's disclosure failure. It is about why Cursor — and likely many other AI product companies — turned to a Chinese open model in the first place.
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Nvidia now produces three times as much code as before AI — specialized version of Cursor is being used by over 30,000 Nvidia engineers internally

Nvidia's internal code commits have tripled since it mobilized 100% of its engineers with AI-assisted programming tools. Cursor, an IDE made by Anysphere, now enables over 30,000 developers at the ...