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Words on the street is that xAI will buy cursor.
by mgambati 4mo ago
Words on the street is that xAI will buy cursor.
- Glohrischi 4mo agoYeah for 10-60 BILLION. which again makes this even stupider. For this amount of money you can rebuild cursor and everything else on the market, and with the rest of 9-59 Billion, you just hire experts in coding and let them code real high quality code examples. And then you just use your existing grok pipeline and just add this functionality. This xAI stuff has to be run by idiots
- radu_floricica 4mo agoBuy "Cursor", not "Cursor's IP". This means brand, users, and a shitton of data. And if you combine a shitton of data with a lot of compute, large userbase and good engineers, you have a pretty good chance of doing something interesting.
- Glohrischi 4mo agoYeah you know how much 10-60 Billion are? You could literaly just give your compute away for free for a year to pull people in. Make an API Endpoint for free with the caviat that they are allowed to use the data for traing, what everyone else does too.
- mgambati 4mo agoAnd you still don’t get the quality of data that cursor have which is the best due to being collected pre vibe coding.
- Glohrischi 4mo agoWith giving out tokens for free you would