Cursor has restricted China-based users from accessing U.S. models offered by its coding assistant software, such as Claude-4-Sonnet and Gemini-2.5-Pro, according to three users. These users received notifications stating that these models had become unavailable due to location-based restrictions when they attempted to access them via Cursor’s software this week, according to screenshots seen by The Information. Users with paid memberships have the option to request a partial refund for the restricted services, according to Cursor’s website. Cursor didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. U.S. companies including Anthropic, Google and OpenAI have not made their close-weight models available to China, where any generative AI applications must be approved by regulators before being released to consumers. However, China-based coders were able to access these models via Cursor until the recent restrictions. Cursor also includes some China-developed models such as DeepSeek in its offering and they remain accessible by China-based coders. However, Claude and Gemini models tend to be favored by developers. #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖 https://docs.cursor.com/a..