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Est. 2022·San Francisco, CA
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GitHub Copilot
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Est. 2021·San Francisco, CA
Coverage (30d)
12vs7
This Week
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Evidence
15 articles
Team Size
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Timeline

Cursor2026-06-21

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

Cursor2026-06-21

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

Cursor2026-06-17

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

GitHub Copilot2026-06-02

Leaked screenshot suggests GitHub Copilot mobile app development, no official release date.

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

Cursor2026-04-29

Cursor releases SDK that turns its agent runtime into programmable infrastructure for headless use

GitHub Copilot2026-03-28

Launched new layered customization system informed by the study, using repo-level, path-specific, and custom agent files

GitHub Copilot2026-03-13

Announced Copilot SDK shifting AI from chat to programmable execution layer.

GitHub Copilot2026-03-12

Made custom agents, sub-agents, plan agent, and auto model selection generally available in JetBrains IDEs.

Ecosystem

Cursor

competes withClaude Code7 src
usesModel Context Protocol4 src
usesOpenAI3 src
developedClaude Opus 4.63 src
competes withGitHub Copilot2 src
competes withAnthropic2 src

GitHub Copilot

partneredOpenAI11 src
competes withClaude Code4 src
competes withAmazon CodeWhisperer2 src
competes withCursor1 src
competes withCatDoes1 src
competes withAndroid Studio1 src

Evidence (15 articles)

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