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Cursor
Anysphere's AI-native IDE with inline edits, codebase-aware chat, and background agents. It has become the default choice for AI-assisted development at many startups.
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ChronicleSEP 02, 2026
Cursor's cloud agents can now run on self-hosted machines, keeping tool execution entirely inside your own network with code, build outputs and secrets on internal machines. Agents run on existing sandboxes — AWS Lambda, Coder, Cloudflare, Modal and E2B among others — while team pools scale with demand and hibernate idle machines. Self-hosted workers also gained computer use on Linux and Mac, and you can watch or take over from Cursor. ↗
AUG 27, 2026
Cursor Cloud Agents no longer require a connected GitHub or other third-party SCM provider. Users pick "Start from scratch" and prompt the agent; Cursor quietly provisions an Origin repo in the background, and once the build looks good users click "Create repo" to save it with private or internal visibility in the Codebase tab. Live previews are port-forwarded straight to the browser, and publishing is one click via a connected Vercel account. ↗
AUG 19, 2026
Cloud agents now operate as an always-on system that picks up work in response to events, holds a goal until it is met, and stays on course through long sessions. New: Subscriptions (agents wake on PR / Slack events), Custom Modes (skills pinned to the chat), Subagents on isolated cloud VMs, a /goal command for long-lived objectives, and Steering that interrupts without cutting the agent off mid-action. ↗
AUG 17, 2026
Cursor opens early beta of Origin, its own code hosting service, on every paid plan. Users spin up repos from the new Codebase tab, push code via a CLI, and open pull requests inside the editor with full timeline, commits, checks, and diffs. Cursor agents can read and act on any connected repo, and integrations with Vercel (preview deploys on every PR), Depot and Buildkite ship today; agent features land "soon." ↗
AUG 13, 2026
Cursor ships Builds for Cloud Agents — pre-cloned, dependency-installed copies of the dev environment that agents boot into directly instead of setting up each session. Internally 10x faster environment boots and 3x faster time to first token, with automatic fallback to the last successful build if a dependency update breaks the env. Included with Cloud Agents at no extra cost. ↗
AUG 03, 2026
Cursor's coding agent gains direct access to Gmail, Google Drive, and Calendar — reading, drafting, and creating across the workspace without copy-paste, complementing the broader rollout of background agents and Slack integration. ↗
JUN 18, 2026
The round cements Cursor as the most valuable AI-first IDE on the map. ↗
JUN 16, 2026
SpaceX agreed to acquire Anysphere, the company behind the Cursor coding agent, in a $60 billion all-stock deal announced June 16, 2026, days after SpaceX's IPO. Reuters and Bloomberg both reported the terms of a deal that would place the fast-growing coding agent under Elon Musk's space company. ↗
APR 02, 2026
UpdateCursor 1.0 with BugBot
The 1.0 milestone adds automated PR review and memories that persist across sessions. ↗
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FAQWhat is Cursor?
Anysphere's AI-native IDE with inline edits, codebase-aware chat, and background agents. It has become the default choice for AI-assisted development at many startups.
Who makes Cursor?
Cursor is built by Anysphere, headquartered in San Francisco, and launched in Mar 2023.
Is Cursor free?
Cursor uses a freemium pricing model and is available on IDE. Check cursor.com for current plans.
What models does Cursor run on?
On AgentMaps, Cursor is charted as running on GPT · Claude.