Cursor's Biggest Bet: A GPT-4-Sized Model Trained From Scratch, Shipping in Weeks
Future of AI by Cursor Founder
When Cursor’s four founders looked at AI coding in 2022, they got nervous and walked away. There were already dozens of startups, and they “couldn’t really compete.”
Three years later, 95% of their users treat Cursor primarily as an agent, and the company is now training a model as big as GPT-4 and Opus, from scratch, on 10 to 20x more compute than it has ever had. This is the story of how a product company talked itself into becoming a frontier lab, told in its own words at the Compile keynote.
Everything below comes from a single 27-minute keynote (delivered by Cursor co-founder Michael and his team.
In this newsletter you’’ll learn:
Why four nervous programmers who almost didn’t build Cursor
Cursor quickly went from assistant to agent
How Composer 2 learned to retrain itself every five hours
Agents at work: 6 million automation runs and Amplitude’s 20,000-component migration
The big bet: a from-scratch model as big as GPT-4, on 10-20x more compute, shipping in weeks
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