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OpenAI models are only 5% of Cursor traffic. That might be the bigger story.

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OpenAI is cutting Cursor off after the SpaceX acquisition. Cursor’s CEO says OpenAI models are only about 5% of user traffic. That number surprised me more than the breakup. Are frontier models becoming interchangeable, or does that 5% represent the hardest work?

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  1. 2026-08-29 10:58 · r/OpenAI
    OpenAI models are only 5% of Cursor traffic. That might be the bigger story.

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