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Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Damn; Cursor has basically no value if Anthropic pulls the same move. Twitter Part 2 indeed.

How so? A dozen very capable models out there. And the gap between frontier models from the two main US labs kept narrowing, at this point non existent.

The quality/price ratio is clearly superior when running Qwen, GLM, or Deepseek.

To make a product more exclusive won't hide the fact that product is becoming more and more irrelevant.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

#132
Elon Musk openly admitted to distilling OpenAI's models [1], which I think explains the "based on our experience with Elon Musk's companies violating contracts".

Last year, Anthropic cut off Windsurf the same way [2]. Fortunately, unlike Anthropic, OpenAI allows you to use your subscription with other harnesses, including Cursor.

Of course today, Anthropic is taking the "high road" and is OK with with SpaceX [3] including their models in Cursor, because they need SpaceX's compute.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/04/30/elo...

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/windsurf-says-anthropic-is...

[3] https://x.com/NotTomBrown/status/2093541294027280657

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

#133
post #59
post #3

Wow, I don’t use cursor but that seems pretty bad for them. Is there a way to work around this (like using your OpenAI limits directly?)

It's basically not going to affect them at all. I don't know a single person that uses OpenAI models via Cursor. Saw another comment say it was 5%.

All it shows is that openai is likely still subsidizing inference, sees no value in integration buried within other branded tooling competing with theirs.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

#134

> We are making this choice because we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our experience with Elon Musk's companies violating contracts. > After Musk acquired Twitter, now part of SpaceX, the company broke (opens in a new window) the terms of our contract (alongside many others). I have never seen one large company throw another large company under the bus wi…

Elon Musk openly admitted to distilling OpenAI's models during his lawsuit against OpenAI. [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2026/04/30/elo...

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

#135

Spend a lot of time thinking about why individuals shouldn't trust large AI cos, now it's interesting getting to think about how the AI companies themselves don't trust each other. Capitalism is viciously cold and uncaring.

At least capitalism isn't at the center of the most impactful technological revolution in human history.

Not sure the larger point you're trying to make (maybe we're on the same page?), but it's a fact that AI has come from heavy long-term investments by the academic and public sectors, yet private companies are accruing most of the gains

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

#136
post #65

Spend a lot of time thinking about why individuals shouldn't trust large AI cos, now it's interesting getting to think about how the AI companies themselves don't trust each other. Capitalism is viciously cold and uncaring.

show me a communist country

back when the USSR was still a going concern, there were zero American leftists claiming that it wasn't really communist. that only started happening after they failed

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

#137
> we are giving the maximum notice provided by our contract.

Anyone else surprised that the maximum notice period allowed is about 3 months?

I would have thought 3 months is minimum notice period, with provisions to stop faster if any provable violation occurs.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

#138
post #130

We are making this choice because we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our experience with Elon Musk's companies violating contracts. The pot calling the kettle black. Look who's talking. A company that trained it's models illegally on so many copyrighted materials without compensating anyone involved. For a company named "Open" AI, they've been hardly open…

Codex cli is open source rust project (Claude Code is not). Whisper is an open weight ASR/STT model. GPT-OSS is an open weight LLM that can run locally and is still very capable. CLIP is an open source model used for image encoding. Just some of the open contributions from OpenAI

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

#140

Anthropic already banned xAI for very similar ToS violations earlier this year: https://x.com/kyliebytes/status/2009686466746822731?s=46 So this is OpenAI following suit after Musk admitted to distilling their models. This was bound to happen once Cursor decided to sell itself to a competing model provider. It'll be interesting to see if Anthropic applies their ban to Cursor, or if that datacenter deal they signed wi…

Anthropic seems to have no issues: https://x.com/NotTomBrown/status/2093541294027280657?s=20

Remind me to set up public nitter so I can post a nitter link to whatever this is, and then I can read it.
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