ME News Report, April 17 (UTC+8), according to Beating Monitoring, xAI plans to provide large-scale computing power support to AI programming startup Cursor, allowing it to train the latest programming model Composer 2.5 on xAI's infrastructure. According to Business Insider, Cursor will utilize tens of thousands of GPUs in xAI's "Colossus" data center. This arrangement marks a significant shift in xAI's strategy: by leasing out redundant computing power, xAI is expanding from a pure model R&D company to a cloud service provider similar to AWS and CoreWeave. The background of this cooperation is complex. In March this year, xAI recruited two product engineering managers from Cursor to lead its product team. Additionally, an internal memo at xAI shows that its current GPU utilization rate (MFU) is only 11%, far below the industry average of 35% to 45%. xAI President Michael Nicolls has asked the team to increase utilization to 50% within a few months. Opening computing power to external unicorns not only helps share the expensive data center operating costs but also allows gaining valuable engineering feedback through top-tier programming agent services. Currently, Cursor is negotiating funding at a valuation of $50 billion. Against the backdrop of OpenAI and Anthropic aggressively entering the programming assistant track, tying xAI's computing resources has become a key factor in maintaining its competitive edge. (Source: BlockBeats)

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CyberBridgeShadow

· 2h ago

Will Cursor use xAI computing power, and in the future, will it be tied down to this company?

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HotAirBalloonViewingSchedule

· 2h ago

xAI's recent transformation is quite interesting, shifting from selling models to selling computing power.

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ColdWalletFitnessCoach

· 2h ago

Sharing the cost of open computing power is true, but do customers feel it's worth the price?

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SnackFi

· 2h ago

MFU 11% is indeed too low; even NVIDIA shakes their head.

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GoldfishOnIce

· 2h ago

Switching from a model vendor to a cloud service provider, does xAI think selling shovels is more stable than gold prospecting?

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GateUser-f4b3df7a

· 2h ago

Nicolls' requirement, the engineer's hair has fallen out completely.

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AmberTeaSwirl

· 2h ago

Is Composer 2.5 trainable? xAI's own Grok is still catching up.

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KiteAndBlock

· 2h ago

Colossus has tens of thousands of cards for Cursor to use—Elon Musk is basically trying to be the boss of cloud service providers.

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GateUser-4e0e3bcf

· 2h ago

Cursor's 50 billion valuation is still raising funds; how big is the AI bubble really?

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WhaleTailWitness

· 2h ago

MFU 11% to 50%, how many months? This KPI is quite aggressive.

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