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@brianchau57 tweeted on 2026-03-21

2026-03-21 · 03:00 UTC ·@brianchau57 ·0 min read

Brief

@brianchau57 calls the AI value chain "circular plagiarism with selective outrage," juxtaposing a Kimi.ai announcement that Cursor's newly launched Composer 2 is built on Kimi-k2.5 via Cursor's continued pretraining and high-compute RL. Kimi says Cursor accesses Kimi-k2.5 through FireworksAI's hosted RL and inference platform under an authorized commercial partnership.

Why it matters

@brianchau57 tweeted on 2026-03-21: "the entire value chain is circular plagiarism with selective outrage," directly accusing the AI model ecosystem of recycling work while applying selective moral condemnation.

Key details

  • Kimi.ai (@Kimi_Moonshot) congratulated @cursor_ai on Composer 2, saying Kimi-k2.5 provides the foundation; Cursor used continued pretraining and high-compute RL, and accesses Kimi-k2.5 via @FireworksAI_HQ's hosted RL and inference platform under an authorized commercial partnership.
Source evidence

title: @brianchau57: Dispatch from the groupchat:

the entire value chain is circular plagiarism with selective outrage

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author: @brianchau57
contenttype: tweet
publication: Twitter/X
published: 2026-03-21T03:00:54+00:00
sourceurl: https://x.com/brianchau57/status/2035189879861297223

word_count: 79

Dispatch from the groupchat:

the entire value chain is circular plagiarism with selective outrage

Kimi.ai (@Kimi_Moonshot)

Congrats to the @cursor_ai team on the launch of Composer 2!

We are proud to see Kimi-k2.5 provide the foundation. Seeing our model integrated effectively through Cursor's continued pretraining & high-compute RL training is the open model ecosystem we love to support.

Note: Cursor accesses Kimi-k2.5 via @FireworksAI_HQ ' hosted RL and inference platform as part of an authorized commercial partnership.

— https://nitter.net/Kimi_Moonshot/status/2035074972943831491#m