Cursor Keeps Its Distance From xAI Despite Tie-Up

<p>When <b>Cursor</b> agreed to a $60 billion conditional takeover offer from <b>SpaceX</b> last month—the purchase isn’t definite—some of Cursor’s rivals expected the coding startup to work with SpaceX’s <b>xAI</b> unit to develop new models, specifically for coding.</p><p>That’s not happening anytime soon, apparently. Cursor doesn’t currently plan to codevelop coding models with xAI and is focused on improving its own model, <b>Composer</b>, which is powered in part by Chinese model <b>Kimi</b>, according to a person with knowledge of the company’s strategy.&nbsp;</p><p>Less surprisingly, Cursor also doesn’t plan to steer customers to xAI’s <b>Grok</b> model when they pick the AI they want to power their coding, the person said.&nbsp;</p><p>The top models powering Cursor’s products today are Composer, <b>Anthropic’s</b> <b>Claude</b> and <b>OpenAI’s Codex</b>, the person said. That doesn’t say much for Grok’s coding capabilities.</p>