Cloud agents now start 3x faster so you can hand them ambitious, long-running tasks to execute from start to finish.
This performance improvement comes from builds: ready-to-use development environments that Cursor prepares continuously in the background, at no additional cost.
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
Why it matters
Startup latency is the tax on delegating long-running work to a cloud AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition →, and this cuts it without a cost increase. It makes hand-off-and-forget task execution more practical.
