Cursor acknowledges its new low-cost coding model has Chinese bones

Michael Truell Andria Lo/Reuters Cursor left out one key detail about its new coding model: it started from Kimi K2.5. Composer 2 is cheaper, more capable — and built on a Chinese open-source model, Cursor's executives said. An X user spotted code suggesting Kimi under the hood, sparking disclosure. Cursor just acknowledged that its latest coding model has Chinese roots — a detail it left out the first time around. In a series of posts on X over the weekend, Cursor executives said Composer ...