Austen Allred Urges Cursor to Build Own Model and Partner With xAI

Cursor or SpaceX alone can’t really play in the enterprise coding game.

Cursor + SpaceX/xAi?

Now it’s a ball game.

Have a lot of catching up to do as models go, but they’re in the race.

@LonnyLot @Austen

@Austen if I’m being honest Xai and cursors models are both pretty bad.. not sure where they will get the new data, possibly space. if that’s the case it gets very interesting

@Austen I'd like to see the actually link to this post Nostradamus 😛

@Austen happy. especially as I own a few spacex shares. i think this is a smart move for both parties.

@thestreamingdev @Austen I don't think they are that bad, like not good to do projects from zero but for some incremental work in a codebass that you know well they are not bad and follows instructions clearly

@Austen Cursor fine-tuned Grok has a real chance at Pareto Frontier cost and SOTA capabilities any day here now

@Austen Nice predication - it was their only option without getting swallowed by Anthropic & OpenAI

@Austen NostradAImus

@Austen Interesting take — combining the tools with the compute power could definitely shift things.

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@Austen Nice

@Austen In other words, xAI failed to deliver a model + harness to compete on their own and are trying to acquire their way to success. Still a long ways to go.

@Austen Watch out!

Yes, Grok is behind, but look at how fast its gotten this good. With the Cursor partnership and now aqui, they also have arguably the best coding data of all to train on.

They have the people, the compute, the money, the data.

Wouldnt bet against

@Austen Before the Anthropic models started appearing, I always found Grok to be the superior coder. I expect great things from this acquisition.

@Austen Legendary

@Icarussiano @Austen It used to be so much better ngl then I realized it was because the model was Claude then Claude copy and pasted cursors harness and Claude code became cursor

@Austen You literally predicted it and now SpaceX acquires cursor

@Austen it looks right