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❗️Borrowed models, billion-dollar valuations and a licensing fight blowing up in public. Is this what the AI boom looks like at the top? Cursor, an early player in the AI coding IDE wave out of Y Combinator, just launched its new model, Composer 2, positioning it as a major step forward in dev tooling. The timing is notable. Just days earlier, the company closed a round at a ~$50B valuation, with backing from Google and Coatue. Revenue momentum is equally aggressive: ARR reportedly jumped from $1B to $2B in a single quarter. Then things got messy. Moonshot AI, the team behind the open-source Kimi K2.5 model, publicly accused Cursor of building on top of their work without proper attribution. Their license is simple: • Free to use and modify • But once you scale past $20M/month or 100M MAU, you must visibly credit “Kimi K2.5” According to Moonshot, that didn’t happen. The implication: Composer 2 may not be as “from-scratch” as it was presented but rather a refined wrapper around an existing open model. The debate quickly escalated across tech Twitter, pulling in voices like Elon Musk and turning into a broader conversation about attribution, open-source norms, and startup ethics in AI. And the numbers tell their own story: • $4.3B valuation for the original model creator • $50B valuation for the company packaging and distributing it In this cycle, owning the interface not the invention might be the real moat. @aipost🏴

🔥This is a huge deal, massive win for AI labs, founders and builders in the USA. Trump's new AI legal framework doesn't mess around, gloves are off: - U.S. *does NOT* believe AI trained on copyright material violates copyright theft. MASSIVE win for anthropic, openai who have used copyrighted material. - Data centers: full-speed ahead to build them. any increased costs for people should be subsidized. - Trump intends to override state AI laws that create "undue burdens" aka if it prevents USA from beating china - it gets killed. - NO new AI regulators - trump specifically told congress not to spin up further oversight. let the AI spice flow. - No censorship of AI by government. very interesting given the recent pentagon anthropic drama. So basically if you want to build crazy AI stuff, the US isn't going to be the one to stop you, huge 180 from their stance last year. Amazing work David Sacks and whoever else worked on this. @aipost🏴

🗣Andrew Yang explains why lawyers will be replaced by AI “The first thing that jumped into my mind when you said that was lawyer. Law school applications, last I checked, went up 21% last year, and I would suggest that was a flight to safety, and that stuff’s not safe at all. Lawyering is highly structured. It’s very process oriented. It’s kind of the ideal environment for AI” “I have friends who are partners in law firms who say, ‘Look, I’m giving AI work that would have taken a second or third year associate a week to complete, and it gives it back to me in 20 minutes. So why on earth would I hire a small army of these associates?” @aipost🏴

❗️One of the richest men alive just put a target on every factory worker's job in America. This is a $100 billion fund built to acquire physical companies and gut them with AI. Jeff Bezos said it himself, AI is the new electricity, it will be inside everything, underneath everything, powering everything. Project Prometheus already raised $6.2 billion, recruited top engineers away from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta, and has been operating in near-total secrecy. The playbook is simple and brutal. Find manufacturers that AI is already disrupting, buy them at a discount, then automate whatever human labor remains Bezos has his sights on aerospace firms, computer manufacturers, and automobile companies. The investors he is courting are not small players either. He has been in talks with JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund, two of the most powerful pools of capital on Earth. Analysts are already comparing this to J.P. Morgan in the 1890s, when he bought failing railroads and steel mills and consolidated 67% of U.S. steel production under one roof. Bezos already controls the cloud infrastructure that most of the world's businesses run on. And now he wants to own the physical factories that build everything those businesses sell. He turned a bookstore into the backbone of global commerce. He is running the exact same playbook again, just with assembly lines instead of warehouses. He is not betting on one company winning the AI race. He is building the infrastructure layer underneath all of them, physical, automated, and impossible to ignore. @aipost🏴

❗️Kelsey Plum, a WNBA player just launched an AI clone of herself.. Fans pay to talk to a chatbot that has her voice and her personality.. 24/7.. while the real one sleeps. @aipost🏴

⚠️Val Kilmer (deceased actor) will be “resurrected via AI” to star in a new movie: His entire body, voice, acting will be ai-generated. 1st major actor to be cast and not actually act. His family signed off on the rights to use his appearance He was cast to be in the film in 2020 but fell ill (cancer) and sadly passed away, now his simulated body will live in a film. Hollywood getting very weird... @aipost🏴

🤯 AI built cancer vaccine saves a dog One guy, ChatGPT + protein-folding AI, and a dog with months to live. The story sounds fake, but it actually happened. An Australian tech worker adopted a rescue dog that was diagnosed with aggressive cancer. Veterinarians…

🗣Mark Cuban says he's not worried about AI doom scenarios related to robotics because AI "doesn't understand the consequences of its recommendations": "Right now, LLMs are basically bimodal: it’s almost all text and pictures, with some video. You can’t model the world with that." "AI, right now, doesn't understand the consequences of its recommendations. It has no idea what happens next. A 2-year-old in a highchair and a sippy cup knows if it pushes the sippy cup off the highchair, mom's coming running, and the kid's going to start laughing at mom. LLMs don't understand [that]." "So we have to evolve to models that can capture the world and physics, and deal with the latency of not having access to video that you can't see — you have to try to model that. And not only does that take up a lot of processing power, but it takes up a lot of bandwidth." "And so the Terminators taking over, I just don’t see how it’s going to happen." @aipost🏴

OpenAI is planing to launch a Super App that would unify ChatGPT, Codex and Atlas into one, as reported by WSJ. @aipost🏴

Google has released a new full-stack coding experience for AI Studio! https://aistudio.google.com/apps?pli=1 @aipost🏴

🔥Composer 2 is now live in Cursor, pairing frontier-level coding benchmarks with standout pricing: $0.50 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens. Cursor reports major jumps over prior versions across CursorBench (61.3), Terminal-Bench 2.0 (61.7), and SWE-bench Multilingual (73.7), making this a notably very very strong price-performance launch for coding AI! Pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic increased a lot.. https://cursor.com/de/blog/composer-2 @aipost🏴

🔥OpenArt launched a new way to create with AI. With OpenArt Worlds, you can generate a fully navigable 3D environment from a single prompt or image, step inside it, and capture shots exactly the way you envision them. No more starting over. No more inconsistent scenes. You build the world once - and create inside it. • Move through your scene freely • Find your angles • Add characters and elements • Capture production-ready shots https://openart.ai/suite/world @aipost🏴