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Est. 2021·San Francisco, CA
Coverage (30d)
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This Week
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Evidence
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Timeline

Cursor2026-08-14

Cursor was acquired by SpaceX at a 6.7x premium over its $9B valuation

Cursor2026-08-05

Open-sourced Mixture-of-Kittens, an MoE megakernel for NVL72s

Cursor2026-08-05

Cursor valued at $9B+ with $400M+ in funding

Cursor2026-08-05

Open-sourced Mixture-of-Kittens MoE megakernel for NVL72s

Cursor2026-07-16

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

GitHub Copilot2026-07-15

GitHub Copilot reached 1.8M+ paid subscribers

Cursor2026-06-21

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

GitHub Copilot2026-06-02

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

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.

Ecosystem

Cursor

competes withClaude Code8 src
usesModel Context Protocol4 src
usesOpenAI3 src
competes withAnthropic2 src
partneredNvidia2 src
competes withGitHub Copilot2 src

GitHub Copilot

partneredOpenAI11 src
competes withClaude Code5 src
competes withAmazon CodeWhisperer2 src
competes withSourcegraph Cody1 src
usesAgent Plugins 1.0.01 src

Evidence (15 articles)

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