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Cursor AI releases Composer 2.5, its most powerful model to date, with gains on long-running tasks and complex instructions after allocating 85 percent of compute to additional training and reinforcement learning

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Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.

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Been working on text feedback / OPSD in Composer. Really interesting space, and a much more to be explored.

7:03 PM · May 18, 2026 · 2K Views

@eliebakouch Unfortunately can’t give a precise answer. Both were scaled significantly.

elieelie@eliebakouch

@srush_nlp really cool work congrats to the team. if you can answer, do you have rough estimate on how the compute was allocated between RL and continual pt in composer 2 -> 2.5?

7:13 PM · May 18, 2026 · 408 Views
7:15 PM · May 18, 2026 · 160 Views

Been working on text feedback / OPSD in Composer. Really interesting space, and much more to be explored.

7:39 PM · May 18, 2026 · 6.4K Views

Very cool to see Cursor doubling down on training great models. In my opinion, ultimately all serious companies in AI will want to train models themselves, based on open-source instead of outsourcing AI to others via APIs!

CursorCursor@cursor_ai

Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.

4:43 PM · May 18, 2026 · 8.6M Views
5:27 PM · May 18, 2026 · 14.1K Views

Try it out!

(Partially trained on Colossus 2)

CursorCursor@cursor_ai

Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.

4:43 PM · May 18, 2026 · 8.6M Views
5:10 PM · May 18, 2026 · 6M Views

This is such an interesting chart layout, like it a lot!

Congrats to @cursor_ai team on the 2.5 launch 🚀

6:12 PM · May 18, 2026 · 5.7K Views

Great work - exciting to see you training a very powerful coding model!

CursorCursor@cursor_ai

Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.

4:43 PM · May 18, 2026 · 8.6M Views
5:39 PM · May 18, 2026 · 2.4K Views

Composer 2.5 is a significant step up from Composer 2.

This is the very start of our work with SpaceXAI. Hope to have more improvements out soon.

CursorCursor@cursor_ai

Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.

4:43 PM · May 18, 2026 · 8.6M Views
4:57 PM · May 18, 2026 · 724.5K Views

Composer 2.5 sits on the Pareto frontier

CursorCursor@cursor_ai

Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.

4:43 PM · May 18, 2026 · 8.6M Views
5:38 PM · May 18, 2026 · 745 Views

Self distillation everywhere 🥳

CursorCursor@cursor_ai

Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.

4:43 PM · May 18, 2026 · 8.6M Views
8:19 PM · May 18, 2026 · 1.3K Views

🎼2⃣5⃣

Together AITogether AI@togethercompute

Congrats to the @cursor_ai team on Composer 2.5 — a huge milestone for agentic coding models. Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is proud to partner on this launch. Composer 2.5 is pushing the frontier for coding agents and turning heads for its speed and quality. Excited to keep building with the Cursor team!

9:58 PM · May 18, 2026 · 337 Views
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@srush_nlp really cool work congrats to the team. if you can answer, do you have rough estimate on how the compute was allocated between RL and continual pt in composer 2 -> 2.5?

Sasha RushSasha Rush@srush_nlp

Been working on text feedback / OPSD in Composer. Really interesting space, and a much more to be explored.

7:03 PM · May 18, 2026 · 2K Views
7:13 PM · May 18, 2026 · 408 Views

cursor is at frontier scale, both in terms of performance and compute

if composer 2.5's budget was put into a pre-train: ~6.3T total, 200B active trained on ~56T tokens

if composer 3 allocates 50% of the budget to pre-training: ~500B active, 15.3T total trained on 135T tokens.

assumptions are a lower bound: 35% MFU, FP8, ~3-4% sparsity like K2, H100 efficiency. model/token allocation is the mean between K2+K2.5 data point and Inclusion AI compute optimal rules for MoE

really impressed by the progression between composer 2 and composer 2.5

CursorCursor@cursor_ai

Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.

4:43 PM · May 18, 2026 · 8.6M Views
6:54 PM · May 18, 2026 · 21K Views

> if composer 3 allocates 50% of the budget to pre-training: ~500B active, 15.3T total trained on 135T tokens.

i meant pre/mid/continual training here (whatever is not RL), and also put 10% estimation in the attached picture

elieelie@eliebakouch

cursor is at frontier scale, both in terms of performance and compute if composer 2.5's budget was put into a pre-train: ~6.3T total, 200B active trained on ~56T tokens if composer 3 allocates 50% of the budget to pre-training: ~500B active, 15.3T total trained on 135T tokens. assumptions are a lower bound: 35% MFU, FP8, ~3-4% sparsity like K2, H100 efficiency. model/token allocation is the mean between K2+K2.5 data point and Inclusion AI compute optimal rules for MoE really impressed by the progression between composer 2 and composer 2.5

6:54 PM · May 18, 2026 · 21K Views
6:59 PM · May 18, 2026 · 1.4K Views

@ericzakariasson looks good

eric zakariassoneric zakariasson@ericzakariasson

composer 1 was fast composer 2 was fast and intelligent composer N:

4:52 PM · May 18, 2026 · 67.1K Views
5:18 PM · May 18, 2026 · 672 Views

Our new model is out. It stacks up nicely against the frontier!

CursorCursor@cursor_ai

Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.

4:43 PM · May 18, 2026 · 8.6M Views
5:59 PM · May 18, 2026 · 2.7K Views

yeah that's pretty good

xAI might be able to cook with Cursor data + 10T model

CursorCursor@cursor_ai

Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.

4:43 PM · May 18, 2026 · 8.6M Views
5:36 PM · May 18, 2026 · 316.4K Views

We just trained another really really good model, please try it! Frontier intelligence + very fast

5:01 PM · May 18, 2026 · 3.7K Views

New Composer from Cursor team! Great to see their ack. to the Kimi base + how much they moved the model forward!

This isn't the one they are training on XAI Colossus, that one is coming and would likely slap hard!

CursorCursor@cursor_ai

Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.

4:43 PM · May 18, 2026 · 8.6M Views
4:58 PM · May 18, 2026 · 1K Views

We used a pretty cool "RL with text feedback" formulation to train this one (see blog post for some details). As RL tasks get longer in horizon, I think it's a ripe time to think about ways we can extract signals that avoid the variance explosion.

CursorCursor@cursor_ai

Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.

4:43 PM · May 18, 2026 · 8.6M Views
7:14 PM · May 18, 2026 · 2.4K Views

composer 2.5 is really really great. I had it on last week for some testing, forgot that it was on, & totally didn’t realize I wasn’t on gpt 5.5 (my usual) for a while. the team did a fantastic job!!

CursorCursor@cursor_ai

Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.

4:43 PM · May 18, 2026 · 8.6M Views
4:50 PM · May 18, 2026 · 7.7K Views

@mntruell Congrats!

Michael TruellMichael Truell@mntruell

Composer 2.5 is a significant step up from Composer 2. This is the very start of our work with SpaceXAI. Hope to have more improvements out soon.

4:57 PM · May 18, 2026 · 724.5K Views
6:49 PM · May 18, 2026 · 479 Views

Intelligence too cheap to meter. This is the real deal. Composer 2.5 is an efficiency-beast

Chubby♨️Chubby♨️@kimmonismus

Huge, did NOT expect that release. Evals looks very solid, significant jump compared to composer 2! But: it’s 10x more efficient than the competition. Looks really exciting. Need to try it out

9:55 PM · May 18, 2026 · 3.6K Views
9:57 PM · May 18, 2026 · 1.6K Views

Huge, did NOT expect that release. Evals looks very solid, significant jump compared to composer 2!

But: it’s 10x more efficient than the competition. Looks really exciting. Need to try it out

CursorCursor@cursor_ai

Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.

4:43 PM · May 18, 2026 · 8.6M Views
9:55 PM · May 18, 2026 · 3.6K Views

frontier smart extremely efficient Composer 2.5 is here

CursorCursor@cursor_ai

Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.

4:43 PM · May 18, 2026 · 8.6M Views
4:52 PM · May 18, 2026 · 24.6K Views

We've gotten really really good at RL. Composer 2.5 is fighting well-above its weight class.

Very excited for the next release as we scale model sizes and FLOPs with @SpaceXAI!

CursorCursor@cursor_ai

Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.

4:43 PM · May 18, 2026 · 8.6M Views
5:28 PM · May 18, 2026 · 302.8K Views

@ericzakariasson Fat slow and genius

eric zakariassoneric zakariasson@ericzakariasson

composer 1 was fast composer 2 was fast and intelligent composer N:

4:52 PM · May 18, 2026 · 67.1K Views
6:08 PM · May 18, 2026 · 804 Views

composer 1 was fast composer 2 was fast and intelligent composer N:

CursorCursor@cursor_ai

Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.

4:43 PM · May 18, 2026 · 8.6M Views
4:52 PM · May 18, 2026 · 67.1K Views
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