Cursor

Cursor is an AI coding product built around agents that write, test, and review software. Its offering spans a desktop editor ("Cursor Desktop"), a command-line agent (Cursor CLI, installable via a shell script from cursor.com/install), a browser-based agent surface at cursor.com/agent, and integrations that let agents run in Slack, review pull requests in GitHub, and be triggered from tools such as Linear. Product capabilities described on the company's site include agent-driven feature planning and implementation, cloud agents that run on their own machines and produce end-to-end demos of completed work, and "Automations" — always-on agents that run on schedules or triggers to build, maintain, and fix software, with configurable tools and MCP connections.

The company positions itself as model-agnostic, letting users select among frontier models for a given task; model names shown in its interface demos include Grok 4.6, Opus 5, and GPT-5.6. Cursor's site also lists research and engineering work by year, including language model fine-tuning and fast inference optimization (2022), context-aware completions and intelligent code navigation (2023), shadow workspaces and multi-agent collaboration (2024), reinforcement learning (2025), and semantic search and secure codebase indexing (2026). In November 2025 the company introduced a proprietary model, Composer, and it also routes to lower-cost third-party models such as Kimi. Cursor publishes desktop builds for macOS (ARM64, x64, universal), Windows (x64 and ARM64, system and user installers), and Linux (.deb, RPM, AppImage), with version 3.17 listed as the latest release. It maintains a public GitHub repository (cursor/cursor) used for documentation, security policy, and issue templates, and runs a community forum and a free tutorial series, Cursor Learn, covering AI foundations and coding agents.

Founding story

Cursor, previously known as Anysphere, was co-founded in 2022 by Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, and Aman Sanger while they were students at MIT.

Business model

Cursor sells a paid AI coding product to individual developers and to enterprises; the company's site offers self-serve download and sign-up alongside a "Request a demo" enterprise motion. Reporting indicates the economics differ by segment: Cursor has reached positive gross margins on large-enterprise sales while continuing to lose money on individual developer accounts.

Paid software subscriptions/usage for the coding agent and editor, spanning individual developer accounts and enterprise deployments. Cursor Learn tutorials are offered without charge as a top-of-funnel resource.

Traction

Cursor reached $2 billion in annualized revenue in February 2026 (most recent month's sales annualized) and forecasts ending 2026 with an annualized run rate above $6 billion, implying at least a tripling over ten months. The company has moved from negative gross margins to slight gross-margin profitability, driven by its Composer model and cheaper third-party models, and is gross-margin positive on large-enterprise accounts. Its public GitHub repository has about 33,200 stars and 2,300 forks. Enterprise users cited publicly include NVIDIA and Stripe.

Latest developments

In April 2026, multiple outlets reported that Cursor was in talks to raise at least $2 billion at a valuation of $50 billion or more before the new money, with Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital expected to lead or co-lead, Nvidia expected to participate, and Battery Ventures potentially joining as a new investor. The round was described as oversubscribed but with terms not final. Separately, Cursor released updates in February 2026 giving agents the ability to test their coding changes and record their actions via video, logs, and screenshots. The latest listed desktop release is version 3.17.