Cursor's Composer 2, marketed as frontier-level coding intelligence, was revealed to be fine-tuned from Kimi K2.5, an open-source model by Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI backed by Alibaba.
Moonshot AI targets $10 billion valuation backed by Alibaba and Tencent, just weeks after raising $500 million at $4.3 billion valuation with Kimi chatbot.
Beijing-based Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.5, an open-source multimodal AI model that rivals OpenAI and Anthropic while being four times cheaper to run, raising questions about US semiconductor export controls' effectiveness in constraining China's AI development.
