alt Hacker NewsLots of people in the comments talking about how this is about training data, but surely this is actually about hiring competent people after the mass exodus/firing at xAI?
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Aurornis • today at 1:34 AM
They could offer $20 million dollar signing bonuses to every Cursor employee if they wanted to hire them away and it would be much cheaper.
They’re buying the customers and the brand.
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bensyverson • today at 12:23 AM
That's quite a pricey acquihire
noelsusman • today at 12:47 AM
$60 billion worth of competent people?
raw_anon_1111 • today at 12:14 AM
Are cursor developers “competent” in creating frontier models? Aren’t they just using other company’s models?
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Whoever thinks the talent pool is this limited that it requires offering Cursor of all places $60B is pattern-matching so hard they might as well be a quilt.