March 23, 2026

Cursor's Composer 2 was secretly built on a Chinese AI model — and it exposes a deeper problem with Western open-source AI

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The $29.3 billion AI coding tool just got caught with its provenance showing. When Cursor launched Composer 2 last week — calling it "frontier-level coding intelligence" — it presented the model as evidence that the company is a serious AI...