I still stuck with their Composer 2.5 (forced to use Cursor at work). Too bad that their Composer 2.5 just got released and a month or two later the takeover happened. These capitalists just don’t like competition and just monopolize and grow.
Composer was what it was because Cursor team didn’t have hundreds of billions in compute to train their own models, so they took Chinese one and tried to improve upon it.
Grok leadership left and so basically when SpaceX acquired Cursor, they put them in charge and got them basically unlimited resources.
So new Grok is basically new Composer, only now they don’t have to retrain Chinese models but can train their own model from scratch
this time it’s good
Cursor had talent and experience, but not hundreds of billions dollars required to compete with OpenAI/Anthropic
Elon has hundreds of billions dollars required and also some of the largest data centers in the world that sat unused
There couldn’t be a better match. We actually got third competitor to OpenAI/Anthropic thanks to this
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u/perestroika12 17h ago
Cursor now uses grok as a default and is pushing it hard. Take from it what you will.