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Est. 2022·San Francisco, CA
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Coverage (30d)
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Timeline

Cursor2026-07-16

Cursor doubled included model usage on all plans and added Grok 4.5 and Composer 2.5 without price changes.

Cursor2026-06-21

Trained a GPT-size model from scratch, shifting from fine-tuning to pretraining for code generation.

Cursor2026-06-21

Announced new Composer model powered by a GPT-size model trained from scratch with 10-20x more compute.

Cursor2026-06-17

Was on track to close a $2B funding round from a16z, Thrive, and Nvidia before acquisition.

Alt-X2026-05-19

Alt-X launches as AI-powered financial model builder for Excel

Cursor2026-05-18

Cursor shipped Composer 2.5, a major upgrade to its in-house AI coding model

Cursor2026-05-11

Cursor launched offering multi-line edits and faster suggestions, rapidly displacing Copilot

Ecosystem

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competes withGitHub Copilot2 src
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Evidence (1 articles)

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