Anysphere—the team behind Cursor, the AI coding sidekick—is looking to license user behavior data to the big model labs: OpenAI, Anthropic, and the usual suspects. Why? Training costs are brutal, and this could ease the burn.

Strategic Implication: Selling real developer telemetry to model competitors? Signals two things: 1) Cursor’s data is juicy, and 2) the race to monetize usage signals is very much on.