Artificial Intelligence · 17.08.2026, 09:41 UTC
[AINews] Cursor's $60B acquisition by SpaceXai closes
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| Kategorie | Artificial Intelligence |
| Quelle | Latent Space ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 17.08.2026 UTC |
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Throwback to when we did the first ever podcast on Cursor when they were 5 people:And then recapping agents at ICML 2024 with Graham Neubig:And then their third era in 2026:And talking about how they do FDE in the Enterprise:AI News for 8/13/2026-8/14/2026. We checked 12 subreddits, 544 Twitters and no further Discords. AINews’ website lets you search all past issues. As a reminder, AINews is now a section of Latent Space. You can opt in/out of email frequencies!AI Twitter RecapOpen-Weight Frontier Push: Z.ai’s GLM-5.3, Qwen3.8-27B/Max, DeepSeek V4-Pro, and RedNote’s dots3-noteZ.ai’s GLM-5.3: The biggest technical story was Z.ai launching GLM-5.3, positioned as a coding- and cyber-focused model built via post-training on the same 743B base model used for GLM-5.2 rather than a new pretrain. Z.ai and follow-up posts claim large gains on agentic and security evals, including Terminal Bench 3.0: 28.3, DeepSWE: 66.9, Agents’ Last Exam: 28.5, and GDPVal-AA: 1769 (bench summary, full benchmarks). The company also said cyber capabilities improved enough that access is initially gated for select partners before an eventual open-weight release after safety review (details). The key claim many engineers highlighted is that the capability jump came entirely from scaled post-training/RL on longer-horizon executable tasks, not from a larger base model (analysis, reaction).Qwen3.8 broadens the local/open frontier: Alibaba released Qwen3.8-27B, a native multimodal dense model under Apache 2.0, with 262K native context extendable to 1M via YaRN, while also highlighting the already-released …