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Step 1: take an open source model with zero acknowledgement.

Step 2: build on someone else's infrastructure innovations with zero acknowledgement.

Step 3: Write a blog post with "unprecedented" and "100x" and "trillions" in the first paragraph.

Seriously, this seems like cool work and enjoyed the post. But my basic trust in them has completely tanked.

I’m not familiar with 2 of these 3 stories so I’m mostly just impressed by the RL turnaround (4 hours!?) and sharing knowledge on the fly off using fine tuned models at scale.

For the gossipy part, I love Kimi, but find it hard to get worked up about them not labelling their model Kimi when Kimi was the base. Especially because Kimi…has had…some issues…being able to distinguish itself from Claude…

I don't though it works and these guys are raking in the money. The wider audience of devs or people paying up for Cursor don't care about the morals old school OSS devs hold.

Define raking in the money. Operating at a profound loss, fueled by untenable investments and hype.. Where are they raking in the money?

Do you think the founders or engineers are poorly compensated?

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