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GitHub Copilot
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Est. 2021·San Francisco, CA
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Cursor
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Est. 2022·San Francisco, CA
Coverage (30d)
7vs10
This Week
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Evidence
15 articles
Team Size
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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.

GitHub Copilot2026-07-15

GitHub Copilot reached 1.8M+ paid subscribers

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.

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

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

GitHub Copilot

partneredOpenAI11 src
competes withClaude Code5 src
competes withAmazon CodeWhisperer2 src
competes withSourcegraph Cody1 src

Cursor

competes withClaude Code8 src
usesModel Context Protocol4 src
usesOpenAI3 src
competes withAnthropic2 src
competes withGitHub Copilot2 src
usesGrok 4.51 src

Evidence (15 articles)

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