Didn't fElon already try buying his way to an AI company then ruined it by being who he is? [searching] Yeah, he bought talent to put together the stupidly named "xAI" to make the offensively wrong did-you-even-read-the-book "Grok" which after three short years is so bad it's not even on most LLM performance charts. Who knows, maybe fElon's pedo pal in the WH will take out Anthropic, Google will give up for no reason, and the Chinese will also give up for no reason. Then everyone on Earth will spend more money than they have on Grok. $22,000,000,000,000 in revenue, EZ PZ!
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We are moving away from cursor. Got too expensive
Interesting, where are you moving to?
We are looking into open router and kimi 2.7, mimo, glm 5.2 models.
You can still use opus/sonnet models all the same, they are just wicked expensive.
There are tools like opencode and kilocode for coding.
I had to move to Kimi K2.6 because Claude models are too expensive to use. BYK from OpenRouter. I have not tested GLM models.
As they stop subsidizing, everything is going to get more and more expensive until they price everyone out. If they are actually "selling shovels for a gold rush," they are cooked. A lot of companies can't afford to use Ai heavily anymore. Customers are going to dry up.
Exactly. It's hilarious just couple days back our ceo pulled 4 devs out and congratulated us on spending 2k a month each and apparently blowing company limit, I'm now tasked with finding alternatives hahaha. Definitely openrouter and kimi 2.7 and glm 5.2 are on my roadmap. I will need to do a presentation for ceo
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Have you tried composer-2.5? Supposedly it's fast, decent, and far cheaper than sonnet.
It's based on kimi 2.5. but since then kimi 2.6 and 2.7 came out already. Yeah I've used it