Cursor Launches Origin Git Storage System
Engineer at Cursor shares details on new Git hosting infrastructure.
Eric Zakariasson, an engineer at Cursor, posted details on Origin, its new Git hosting infrastructure that treats storage like a database. Gergely Orosz raised concerns that code uploaded to Origin could be used to train xAI, SpaceX, or Grok models and said Origin must address this issue. Theo replied that Graphite and Cursor have stored code for years with clear policies on what data is used for training and called the concern a non-issue. Gergely added that frontier model companies offering storage face the same questions and that enterprises require strong guarantees.
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@vmg and here's how to get started
origin is live and ready to host your code! here's how you get started
The thing that Origin will have to address sooner rather than later: What happens with code uploaded to Origin, in terms of training xAI / SpaceX / Grok models? When a frontier model company offers git storage, you WANT to make sure they don't take your code to train their…
We're making Git hosting more reliable, performant, and scalable. This post traces 20 years of Git infrastructure and explains how that history led us to design and operate our Git storage, Origin, as if it were a database.
This would be the same if Anthropic or OpenAI or Google offered this type of storage as well. Hard to tell how much of a blocker this will be... for startups YOLO'ing it, probably not. For enterprises, they need strong guarantees.
@GergelyOrosz Both Graphite and Cursor have been storing our code for years and had clear policies about what data is and isn’t used for training. Nothing has changed here. Non-issue imo