Anysphere · owned by SpaceX/xAI

Industry leader Coding agents and AI IDEsupdated 22 Sep 2026

The leading AI IDE; acquired for $60B in August.

What it offers

Main offerings
Cursor IDE
AI-native editor built on VS Code.
Cloud / background agents
Hand off tasks that run remotely in parallel.
Composer models
Cursor's own fast coding models; also runs Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok.
Grok Bot
Included with Cursor plans since the acquisition.

Recent news

  • Cursor ships Grok 4.7 on day one of its SpaceXAI releaseThe first frontier model released under SpaceXAI ownership; Cursor calls it its strongest for long-running coding.Cursor blog ↗
  • SpaceX closes $60B all-stock acquisition of CursorCursor now has SpaceX's GPU fleet behind it to train its own cheaper, stronger coding modelsTechCrunch ↗
  • SpaceXAI and Cursor prepare first jointly developed coding modelCursor moves from wrapping other labs' models toward owning a frontier-class modelYahoo Finance (The Information) ↗
  • SpaceX exercises option to buy Anysphere for $60BThis confirmed the largest exit in AI coding and roughly doubled the Nov 2025 $29.3B valuationWikipedia ↗
  • Cursor 3 ships an agent-first interface beyond the IDECursor is repositioning from editor to agent-orchestration platform, competing directly with Claude Code and CodexInfoQ ↗
  • Cursor launches Automations for trigger-driven background agentsAgents now start from Slack, code changes or timers, with no human prompt neededTechCrunch ↗

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