CURSOR

About Cursor

AI-powered code editor by Anysphere. The fastest-growing AI coding tool with $1B+ ARR and 300+ employees.

Recent News about Cursor

• Grok 4.5 enters private beta at Tesla and SpaceX with 1.5T‑parameter V9 model

  On June 28, 2026, Elon Musk said on X that xAI’s Grok 4.5, built on a 1.5‑trillion‑parameter V9 foundation model trained with Cursor coding data, has entered closed beta testing inside SpaceX and Tesla. Follow‑up coverage reports Musk claims Grok 4.5 approaches or may surpass Anthropic’s Claude Opus/Mythos family on internal benchmarks.

  Source: IT之家2026-06-28T21:09:24.891Z

• SpaceX buys Cursor AI coding startup Anysphere in $60B stock deal

  SpaceX said on June 16, 2026 it has agreed to acquire Anysphere, the company behind AI coding agent Cursor, in a $60 billion all‑stock deal. The acquisition, announced just days after SpaceX’s record Nasdaq IPO, is expected to close in the third quarter of 2026 and folds Cursor into SpaceX’s rebuilt xAI division.citeturn25view1

  Source: TechCrunch2026-06-16T11:21:00.000Z

• Salt Security debuts Salt Code to police AI coding assistants

  On June 1, 2026 Salt Security introduced Salt Code, a new module in its Agentic Security Platform that enforces internal security policies directly inside AI coding assistants. The tool targets assistants like Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor and Gemini CLI to ensure generated code is policy‑compliant from creation.

  Source: Salt Security / PRNewswire2026-06-01T12:00:00.000Z

• xAI Grok V9-Medium 1.5T model completes training for coding

  On May 25, 2026, Elon Musk announced that xAI has completed training of the 1.5-trillion‑parameter Grok V9-Medium foundation model, now entering fine-tuning and reinforcement learning. The new model, trained with substantial Cursor coding data, is slated for public release in 2–3 weeks, while the current 0.5T V8-Small model serving production traffic is planned to be open-sourced by year-end.

  Source: IT之家2026-05-25T06:49:06.000Z

• China’s AI token economy surges as MiniMax and Zhipu post big gains

  On April 3, 2026 at 14:49 local time in Shanghai, Xinhua reported that Chinese labs MiniMax, Zhipu AI and Moonshot AI are driving a global ‘token economy’ with rapid growth in API usage and overseas adoption. Zhipu AI’s 2025 revenue jumped 131.9% year‑on‑year with token sales up 292.6%, while MiniMax’s 2025 revenue rose 158.9% with about 70% from international markets, and Moonshot’s Kimi K2.5 model was recently adopted as the base engine for U.S. coding platform Cursor.

  Source: People’s Daily Online2026-04-03T06:49:00.000Z

• Claude Code helps build new Elo programming language in 24 hours

  On Jan. 24, 2026 The Register profiled how Belgian developer Bernard Lambeau co‑created the Elo programming language with Anthropic’s Claude Code in roughly 24 hours. The pair built a full expression language with parsers, compilers, standard library, CLI and docs, crediting Claude as a co‑author.

  Source: The Register2026-01-24T14:14:00.000Z

• Cursor owner Anysphere acquires AI code review startup Graphite

  On December 22, 2025, InfoWorld reported that Anysphere, maker of the AI coding assistant Cursor, has agreed to acquire Graphite, an AI‑powered code review and debugging platform. The deal will combine Cursor’s AI coding environment with Graphite’s review tools, including its ‘stacked pull request’ feature, though financial terms were not disclosed.

  Source: InfoWorld2025-12-22T22:07:47.682Z

• Cursor launches Visual Editor, extending agentic ‘vibe-coding’ from code generation into UI design workflows

  Cursor unveiled a new tool called Visual Editor that lets developers and teams edit web-app UI visually while also issuing natural-language requests to an AI agent—aiming to merge design tweaks and code changes in a single loop. The Indian Express notes the tool supports direct manipulation (dragging elements, inspecting components/props) plus chat-based instructions, signaling that ‘agentic’ coding is expanding beyond writing functions into shaping product interfaces. This matters because it attacks a chronic bottleneck in software teams: friction between design intent and implementation details during handoffs and iterations. Cursor’s positioning also hints at intensifying competition with large incumbents and frontier-model vendors that want to own the end-to-end developer workflow, not just the underlying model. In practice, tools like this could shift “how fast you can ship” from being mostly a human coordination problem to being partially an agent-orchestration problem—an important lever in the race for developer mindshare and platform lock-in.

  Source: The Indian Express2025-12-14T05:57:00.000Z

• Amazon tells engineers to favor in‑house Kiro AI coding tool over rivals

  An internal memo urges Amazon engineers to use the company’s Kiro AI coding assistant instead of third‑party tools like OpenAI’s Codex, Anthropic’s Claude Code, and Cursor. The guidance underscores Amazon’s push to consolidate developer tooling around its own AI stack even as it partners with or invests in external AI providers.

  Source: Reuters2025-11-25T00:34:00.000Z