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Grok V9 Skipped GitHub and Trained on How You Actually Code in Cursor, All 1.5 Trillion Parameters

XAI trained its Grok V9 model on private coding data from Cursor, not just public GitHub repositories, using 1.5 trillion parameters to understand how developers actually code.

read1 min views19 publishedJun 16, 2026

Here is the part of the Grok V9 story almost nobody is saying out loud: xAI did not just scrape more public code. It trained a… Continue reading on Towards AI »

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pub.towardsai.net — original article OpenAI’s Agent Walked Out the Front Door Behind the Blinking Cursor: How NPCterm Gives AI Agents a Real Terminal to Live In Are Tabular Foundation Models Ready to Replace Gradient Boosting Models?
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