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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
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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.
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AI-powered code editor built on VS Code, combining inline AI assistance, chat, and an agent mode.
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Writing, research & talks
Cursor adds Meta Superintelligence Labs' Muse Wonder as a selectable model. Cursor reports 46.1% on CursorBench at default effort, its best Muse result, with pricing of $4 per million input and $20 per million output tokens. Only the post was available, not the linked page.
Cursor adds Gemini 4 Argon, reporting 52.8% on CursorBench at default effort, comparable to Opus 5.5, with pricing of $2/M input and $10/M output tokens.
Cursor folds into The X Subscription. Paid plans share one usage pool across Cursor, Grok Build and other Grok products, with 2x coding usage on Grok models versus the equivalent Cursor plan, while third-party models in Cursor move to API pricing on the new plans.
Cursor added Claude Haiku 5.5, priced at $0.10/M input and $0.50/M output (rising to $0.50/$2.50 above 100k input), and halved Sonnet 5.5 cache read pricing to $0.10/M. Enable it in Settings under Models.
Cursor adds GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash, and reports GLM 5.3 Max as the best-scoring open-weight model on its CursorBench 4.0.
Cursor ships a /visualize command in its Agents Window that analyzes data and renders charts and diagrams inline in the chat. The announcement is brief, and the demo video could not be read.
Cursor added Anthropic's Sonnet 5.5 as a selectable model, saying it matches Opus on many tasks. Coding-agent users get a new option for the model tier used in day-to-day editing and agent runs.
Claude Opus 5.5 is now available in Cursor and tops CursorBench at 57.8% (Max) while costing 40% less per task than Opus 5, per Cursor's own benchmark data.
Cursor has added Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 to its model lineup, with full benchmark results published on Cursor's own CursorBench.
Cursor now lets cloud agents execute on infrastructure you control, including autoscaling machine pools, while the agent loop remains in Cursor. Supported sandbox providers include AWS Lambda, Coder, Cloudflare, Daytona, E2B, Modal, Namespace, and Vercel.
Cursor added Gemini 3.8 Flash to its model list on release day and published its own CursorBench numbers for the model, giving a side by side against the other coding models Cursor offers.
Cursor reports Fable 5.1 at 73.4% at max effort on CursorBench 3.2, the highest it has measured for any model on that harness, and credits the model's habit of verifying its own work for carrying harder tasks end to end. Available in Cursor now.
Cursor adds a greenfield path: scaffold a web app in the editor with no repository, store the code through Origin, and deploy straight to Vercel. Removes the repo-first setup step that previously sat between a prompt and a live URL.
Cursor cloud agents can now start from events, hold a long-lived objective, monitor pull requests, watch Slack threads and run scheduled tasks. Subagents get isolated virtual machines with their own copy of the project, and skills can be pinned as always-on modes.
Cursor traces twenty years of Git hosting design and explains why it operates its own storage layer, Origin, as a database rather than a filesystem, with the scaling limits that pushed it there.
Cursor now hosts code. Origin's early beta ships repos, pull requests, browsing and two-way GitHub sync, with agents able to answer questions, push branches and update PRs in place. Vercel, Depot and Buildkite connect for previews and CI. Live on all paid plans, enterprise admins can opt out.
Cursor has launched Origin, its own code hosting platform, now rolling out in beta and wired directly into the editor. Teams get started by syncing existing repositories over from GitHub.
Cursor confirmed its acquisition by SpaceX has closed. The team joins SpaceXAI to work on Grok, Grok Build, Grok Bot and the Grok API alongside Cursor itself, putting a widely used AI editor under the same roof as the Grok model line.
Cursor's cloud agents now start three times faster, using development environments prepared continuously in the background at no extra cost.
Cursor now prepares development environments continuously in the background, cutting cloud-agent start times about threefold at no extra cost. A build that fails never ships — agents keep working from the last successful one while you debug it separately.
Cursor now supports Agent Plugins, an open standard for bundling skills and MCP servers for use across agents. https://t.co/avJch1Kblq
- Here's how we built it:cursor.com
Cursor learns model choice from live traffic rather than benchmarks: Compass first predicts whether a turn is simple enough for a price-efficient model, then a learned taxonomy of tasks, domains and modifiers picks the frontier model. Labels come from what the user did next; costs count cache misses
Our hope is that this lowers the barrier to AI research, so more labs can train models efficiently. Here's how we built it: https://t.co/EaC2z7Mw3a
Cursor has released new plugins that let its AI agents read, write, and take actions across Gmail, Google Drive, Calendar, Docs, and Sheets. This extends Cursor's agentic capabilities beyond code editing into everyday productivity and workspace automation tasks.