Technology22 Mar 2026SEO 801 min read

Analysis: Cursor admits its new coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI’s Kimi

AI coding company Cursor launched a new model this week called Composer 2, which it promoted as offering “frontier-level coding intelligence.” However, an X us…

AI coding company Cursor launched a new model this week called Composer 2, which it promoted as offering “frontier-level coding intelligence.” However, an X user posting under the name Fynn soon claimed that Composer 2 was “just Kimi 2.5” with additional reinforcement learning — Kimi 2.5 being an open source model recently released by Moonshot AI , a Chinese company backed by Alibaba and HongShan (formerly Sequoia China). As evidence, Fynn pointed to code that seemed to identify Kimi as the mod…

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