In prod, 4.7 uses ~5% more tokens than 4.6 for a median request and ~20-30% more for a p99 request. There's also a distribution shift of what users are willing to ask it. Building @SpaceXAI
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Theo
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@mntruell
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Theo showed your posts 6 times and read every one aloud.
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Michael Truell@mntruell
Theo read it aloud at 4:15 Normally I wouldn't call out these contradictions, but I have Michael Truel, the CEO and founder of Cursor, who now is of course helping with a lot of these types of things at XAI.
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Michael Truell@mntruell
We're sorry to see that OpenAI put out a note saying they plan to block Cursor users from accessing OpenAI models in three months. OpenAI models serve about 5% of Cursor user traffic, and we're speaking with the OpenAI team to resolve this. Cursor was one of the very first users of OpenAI, we've worked closely with their team for years, and we've trusted their platform to be neutral infrastructure for our business. 7:52 PM · Aug 28, 2026 · 4.9M Views We're sorry to see that OpenAI put out a note saying they plan to block Cursor users from accessing OpenAI models in three months. OpenAI models serve about 5% of Cursor user traffic, and we're speaking with the OpenAI team to resolve this.... Tokens are not a proxy for revenue nor value created and the OpenAI models are on the very frontier of token efficiency. Smaller or less strong models require many more tokens to achieve a task and therefore will inflate traffic share significantly. OpenAI models serve about 5% of Cursor user traffic, and we're speaking with the OpenAI team to resolve this....
Theo read it aloud at 15:02 Here's a post from TBO that I actually think is decent overall.

