The Cursor-Kimi Dispute: Gates and “Gotchas” in the Open-Source LLM Licensing
(By You Yunting) Recently, the AI coding assistant Cursor, developed by the American startup Anysphere, released its new AI coding feature, Composer 2. However, users discovered that its underlying model was in fact Kimi K2.5, developed by Moonshot AI, leading to a controversy over Cursor’s failure to credit the model as required by the license. After public confirmation of Moonshot AI’s head of pre-training, even Elon Musk weighed in. While open-source LLMs (Large Language Models) are often free to use, their user agreements are not mere formalities. Today, let’s discuss the special clauses hidden in these user agreements and the consequences of non-compliance therewith.