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▶ 14:27 · $CURSOR · Cursor acquisition gives xAI a frontier coding harness to pair with frontier model
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Is ChatGPT 5.6 Actually That Good?

2026-07-09 · 4 company · 3 thematic
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dan sheper

CEO and co-founder of Every, an AI company. He has been testing ChatGPT 5.6 internally with his team of about 30 people for about a month and closely tracks frontier model releases and their product implications.

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“they acquired cursor and basically having uh having a frontier model paired with a Frontier harness is I think going to be and they also have a ton of compute is going to be a thing that's going to be a flywheel.”
—dan sheper
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