Cursor owner Anysphere acquires AI code review startup Graphite

Cursor has already emerged as one of the most aggressive challengers to GitHub Copilot, and the Graphite acquisition tightens its grip on a key part of the software lifecycle: code review. Generative coding tools don’t eliminate bugs—they often multiply them—which makes high‑quality automated review and stacked pull‑request workflows a natural complement to agentic coding environments. By pulling Graphite’s capabilities in‑house, Anysphere is betting that the future of development is an end‑to‑end AI toolchain spanning authoring, refactoring, review and deployment.

From an AGI‑race perspective, this is meta‑infrastructure: AI applied to accelerate the creation and hardening of more software, including the very systems used to train and serve frontier models. If tools like Cursor + Graphite let smaller teams ship complex systems with less human toil, they effectively expand the talent pool working on advanced AI and adjacent infra. They also increase developer dependence on a handful of AI‑native IDEs, which over time could become powerful distribution channels for specific models and agents. Expect incumbents—from Microsoft to JetBrains—to answer with their own acquisitions or deeper integrations in code review and CI/CD.