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$2.3 billion funded Cursor, admits its new coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI’s Open-Source Kimi. (techcrunch.com)
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[–] Lugh@futurology.today 3 points 6 months ago

Nothing wrong with making money off open-source if you are adding some value. What I question here is the investors pouring hundreds of billions into closed-source AI. If free open-source is almost as good - how do you expect to get your money back?