What's the relationship between Cursor and X/Elon's companies, and what models does Cursor offer?
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Cursor was set up as an AI-first IDE and recently acquired by xAI/SpaceX; it provides access to multiple model APIs (Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Chinese models) with built-in logic routing that automatically selects best model based on cost or intelligence priority.
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34:56i have a chat gbt 100 and the um cloud 100 i mean i have whatever the super x account one is so i get some grok access from that um i'm heavily considering switching to cursor we're using cursor at the office and uh it really is a really great uh way to kind of get access to most of the models uh you kind of miss access for you know a couple weeks while a new
35:24model gets released um and they build out an api and and capacity to be able to share that across but uh um i'm really impressed with cursor uh if you haven't checked it out definitely the the grok 4 6 models that they have out there are really powerful and you can get access to grok bot as well so um i can put you in contact guys sir yeah what's the relationship between so is
35:47cursor run by x yeah cursor was uh stood up as like a um ide that was ai first um so it had a bunch of ways to integrate all the different ais directly into uh the ide experience uh recently it was purchased by spacex or xai whatever uh all the different brands that elon keeps changing the the names of. So they recently took it over and moved it into more
36:15of a like a chat experience and then a terminal. So there's still an ID that you can access if you want to. But most people, especially vibe coders are just kind of living in that CLI world or just directly into that, that chat experience that they have. So honestly, really, really powerful. And you get access to, you can, you know, all the cloud models the chat gpt models codex models um even like some of the chinese models
36:45are there too like kimmy's theirs it's a really great way to kind of see what is what and um i think the most powerful thing is it has a logic router so you don't really have to define which model it's going to use um you can just put a question in there and then it's going to analyze that question and you're able to kind of tilt the scale about say like you know i really want
37:08intelligence focus or i want cost savings focus and it's going to route that request to the best possible model and get you an answer quickly and so if you're you know if you don't want to manage like i'm going to do this one like this and this one like this and all the kind of manual steps if you're pinching pennies on on your ai costs um you don't have to worry about that with cursors
37:27it can automatically handle that for you yeah that sounds cool i'm gonna definitely check it out by the way does cursor have level five self-driving yet no i'm just kidding don't answer yeah maybe uh you know once the tesla cabs are out there we'll see go ahead craig oh you're muted there we go yeah there you go yeah i have a little tiny mute button um so the uh
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