Sources: xAI plans to let Cursor train Composer 2.5 AI coding model using tens of thousands of xAI's GPUs, a new strategy for xAI in a competitive AI landscape
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Discussion
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@emilheap
@emilheap
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If xAI acquires Cursor They finally get their much needed RL data. Free X premium and some grok quota, if you allow data training
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@nofil_ai
@nofil_ai
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xAI is no longer competing at the frontier and they don't care either. Only players are Openai, Anthropic and Google.
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@charlesd353
Charles
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XAI turning into Coreweave
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@tunguz
Bojan Tunguz
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If you can't beat them, monetize what you got.
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@chribjel
Christoffer Bjelke
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xAI is gonna buy Cursor arent they
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@edzitron
Ed Zitron
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As @chribjel said, I could see xAI buying Cursor. Haven't heard about that big new round in a while!
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@cryptopunk7213
@cryptopunk7213
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xAI acquiring cursor would be a massive win for obvious reasons: - grok becomes a #1 coding agent overnight. cursor has the #1 coding agent harness - cursor gets 500M new users that help speed up product development = better model faster - elon acquires an insanely talented team …
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@chrishayduk
Chris Hayduk
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Seems like xAI is dropping out of the frontier model race just as Meta jumps in. Major four labs to watch are now OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and MSL
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@tekbog
@tekbog
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xAI the hyperscaler?
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@luke_metro
@luke_metro
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Does anyone really think that xAI can compete with Allbirds?
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@beffjezos
@beffjezos
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I really hope this means they're collaborating more deeply across product