Speculation Swirls Around Cursor Launch and xAI Models
Replies question motives behind potential stealth releases and model priorities.
A reply from @teortaxesTex questioned why Cursor would attempt a stealth launch, citing its Musk ties, ample PR resources, and focus on post-training for agentic software engineering. Another from @andersonbcdefg assumed xAI now directs all effort to Grok models and would not allow separate post-trained Chinese lines. Both posts treat these as assumptions rather than confirmed developments, with no first-party statements or independent corroboration present in the packet.
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Speculation Swirls Around Cursor Launch and xAI Models
Replies question motives behind potential stealth releases and model priorities.
A reply from @teortaxesTex questioned why Cursor would attempt a stealth launch, citing its Musk ties, ample PR resources, and focus on post-training for agentic software engineering. Another from @andersonbcdefg assumed xAI now directs all effort to Grok models and would not allow separate post-trained Chinese lines. Both posts treat these as assumptions rather than confirmed developments, with no first-party statements or independent corroboration present in the packet.
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Why would Cursor do a stealth launch? They have plenty of PR, and given their affiliation with Musk and his compute, ox alpha isn't even a big flex. Why would Cursor expose full CoTs? They only train commercial models and their whole edge is post-training for agentic SWE. etc
@teortaxesTex also i just assume they're full time on groks now. why would they maintain a separate line of posttrained chinese models. i dont think mister elon would allow that. get back in the grok mines