Timeline
Cursor doubled included model usage on all plans and added Grok 4.5 and Composer 2.5 without price changes.
GitHub Copilot reached 1.8M+ paid subscribers
Trained a GPT-size model from scratch, shifting from fine-tuning to pretraining for code generation.
Announced new Composer model powered by a GPT-size model trained from scratch with 10-20x more compute.
Was on track to close a $2B funding round from a16z, Thrive, and Nvidia before acquisition.
Leaked screenshot suggests GitHub Copilot mobile app development, no official release date.
Cursor shipped Composer 2.5, a major upgrade to its in-house AI coding model
Cursor launched offering multi-line edits and faster suggestions, rapidly displacing Copilot
Launched new layered customization system informed by the study, using repo-level, path-specific, and custom agent files
Announced Copilot SDK shifting AI from chat to programmable execution layer.
Ecosystem
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Evidence (15 articles)
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