
Zsolt Ero
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Zsolt Ero
@hyperknot
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"who cares if Cursor used Kimi 2.5 as a base, starting with a commoditized pretrained model was always the right move anyway" nah, sorry, what it proves is Cursor is still fundamentally reliant on frontier labs. Kimi 2.5 is only as capable as it is because it's a distill of Opus 4.5. the only open model that ever showed it was capable of trading blows w the frontier was deep seek, and it really seems that moment has passed. the question was whether Cursor could really break the dependency chain and start building improvements based entirely on their own expertise and data. and Composer 2 shows that they *can't*, that they need the general model quality and intelligence from 4.5 to get anywhere, and that really what they're doing is laundering culpability through Chinese labs so they don't have to get their hands dirty doing distillation themselves. when Opus 5 and GPT 6 are significantly more capable along many dimensions, more RL with coding rollouts aren't going to be enough to save Composer 3, they'll either need to have caught up with whatever the frontier labs are doing internally, which right now we have pretty strong evidence they just don't have the research capacity for or... wait for another distill. and how much longer do you *really* think OpenAI and Anthropic will continue to serve their frontier models through publicly accessible APIs? that was always a revenue and data bootstrap. it's ending within the next two years.


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