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Microsoft shipped a model that scores decisions instead of writing text. It is aimed at the routing and grading layer sitting underneath every other model, not at replacing them. Nvidia is reportedly in early talks to buy or invest further in Reflection AI. The deal under discussion would turn its largest coding-model backer into its potential owner. OpenAI’s own safety index now lists more than a dozen cases of models cheating, hiding mistakes or sabotaging their tests. The newest, from 6 October 2026, shows a model trying to delete its way out of a failed grading task. Mistral previewed a trillion-parameter model and promised open weights within the month. It has not said yet what licence those weights will carry. OpenAI put GPT-6 in front of every ChatGPT tier at once. The model now decides whether an answer should be text, a chart, or a tool you can click. Anthropic cut Claude Haiku’s price by up to 90 percent and gave it a 1 million token context window. The cheap-model tier of the price war just got a lot more capable. Anthropic says an Istanbul firm used Claude to run a paid political operation aimed at Malaysian voters. Its report found no sign the campaign reached real communities. The White House ordered federal agencies to stop saying “AI.” A week later, Trump named four officials to run a new body built on the replacement term. Microsoft shipped a model that scores decisions instead of writing text. It is aimed at the routing and grading layer sitting underneath every other model, not at replacing them. Nvidia is reportedly in early talks to buy or invest further in Reflection AI. The deal under discussion would turn its largest coding-model backer into its potential owner. OpenAI’s own safety index now lists more than a dozen cases of models cheating, hiding mistakes or sabotaging their tests. The newest, from 6 October 2026, shows a model trying to delete its way out of a failed grading task. Mistral previewed a trillion-parameter model and promised open weights within the month. It has not said yet what licence those weights will carry. OpenAI put GPT-6 in front of every ChatGPT tier at once. The model now decides whether an answer should be text, a chart, or a tool you can click. Anthropic cut Claude Haiku’s price by up to 90 percent and gave it a 1 million token context window. The cheap-model tier of the price war just got a lot more capable. Anthropic says an Istanbul firm used Claude to run a paid political operation aimed at Malaysian voters. Its report found no sign the campaign reached real communities. The White House ordered federal agencies to stop saying “AI.” A week later, Trump named four officials to run a new body built on the replacement term.
Model prices /1M out
GPT-5.6 Luna $1.20 —
Qwen3.8-Max $6.00 —
Mistral Medium 3.5 $7.50 —
Claude Sonnet 5 $10.00 —
GPT-5.6 Terra $12.00 —
GPT-5.6 Sol $20.00 —
Claude Opus 5 $25.00 —
Claude Fable 5 $50.00 —
AI APP PROFILE

Cursor

The strongest option when the unit of work is the repository rather than the file, with a clean no training commitment.

Source review Last reviewed August 7, 2026 By Anysphere

The facts at a glance

ProviderAnysphere
TypeAI code editor
Free optionYes, the Hobby tier, with limited Agent requests and no card required
Paid pricePro USD 20 per month, Pro+ USD 60 per month, Ultra USD 200 per month
AvailabilitymacOS, Windows, Linux

Pricing last checked August 7, 2026. Prices change and vary by region. Check the official pricing page ↗

Assessment

What it does well

  • Built around whole repository context rather than single file completion
  • Cursor states it does not use your inputs or its suggestions to train its models, and does not permit third parties to
  • Free Hobby tier with no card required

Where it falls short

  • It is a full editor, so adopting it means leaving your current one
  • Paid tiers are defined by included model usage, and exceeding it moves you to usage based billing rather than stopping
  • The jump from Pro to Ultra is USD 180 a month, which is a serious commitment for an individual

Privacy and data control

Cursor states it does not use inputs or suggestions to train its models, nor permit third parties to, except where flagged for security review, explicitly reported by the user, or explicitly agreed to.

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How it performs by outcome

We assess products against a job, not a leaderboard. These are the outcomes this entry is compared under.

Worth comparing against

Grok 4.5 Terminal and agentic coding work where token efficiency matters DeepSeek-V4-Flash Teams that need to run a capable model on their own infrastructure Qwen3.8-Max Multi day autonomous coding projects Kimi K3 Research teams that need frontier scale weights they can inspect

How this profile was produced

Source review. Every fact here is drawn from the provider documentation linked below and checked on the date shown. We have not yet run this entry through a controlled test, and no scoring is implied.

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