cursor
Cursor is an AI-powered code editor and coding agent built by Anysphere, a San Francisco software company incorporated in 2022 by four MIT students: Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, and Aman Sanger. The product lets developers edit code, search codebases, and run tasks via natural-language instructions, and it grew rapidly to billions of dollars in annual recurring revenue and valuation. In June 2026, SpaceX announced an agreement to acquire Cursor for roughly $60 billion in stock, placing it under SpaceXAI.
X / cursor_aiNotable people
People map
Current peopleNotable public-facing people we cover. Grouped by public roles, not reporting lines; this is not a complete staff directory.
Research
- Alexander Wettig
Researcher, Composer reinforcement learning
Product & engineering
- Lauren Tan
Engineer
Role status unverified
- Michael Truell
Co-founder and CEO · Status unverified
Tools
- Cursor Plugins
github.comRepository holding Cursor's plugin specification along with its first-party plugins.
13,923 GitHub starsOriginal source - Cursorcursor.com
AI-powered code editor built on VS Code, combining inline AI assistance, chat, and an agent mode.
freemiumOriginal source
Writing, research & talks
Cursor reworked how its cloud agents handle MCP connections, skills, and computer-use actions, cutting token consumption 20-30% on typical runs and up to 80% where computer use dominates — shifting the ceiling on how ambitious a delegated task can be per budget.
Read more about how we set up our cloud agent environment: https://t.co/sVSv1HpBn9
Cursor’s iPad app extends its mobile coding workflow with more room for agents plus an inbox and pull-request review covering comments, checks and approvals.
Claude Opus 5 lands in Cursor, matching Fable 5 on CursorBench at half the price and, unlike Fable, compatible with Zero Data Retention.
Cursor Router is available today across all surfaces on Teams and Enterprise plans. Admins can enable Router per team, allow or block certain models, set defaults, and disable select optimization modes for users. Learn more: https://t.co/g7T7cHwRZx
- Agent Swarms and the New Model Economicscursor.com
Cursor set two generations of multi-agent swarm against the same task, writing SQLite from scratch, and found the newer coordination scheme matched output quality at a fraction of the compute. The argument: orchestration efficiency now drives agent economics.
Cursor had a team of agents rebuild SQLite from its 835-page manual, producing a Rust replica that passed a full held-out test suite, with cost varying 15x depending on the model mix.