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Anysphere - Wikipedia

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Anysphere, Inc. is an American software company which offers Cursor, an AI-assisted software development service. Founded in 2022, the San Francisco-based startup achieved a US$29.3 billion valuation and surpassed US$1 billion in annual recurring revenue by late 2025.[3] Cursor is commonly described as a vibe coding app.

History

The company was incorporated in 2022 by Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark and Aman Sanger while they were students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).[1] In October 2023 the startup announced an US$8 million seed round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, with angels including former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and Dropbox co-founder Arash Ferdowsi.[1]

In November 2024 TechCrunch reported that Benchmark, Index Ventures and others were bidding up Anysphere's valuation to about US$2.5 billion, four months after a US$60 million Series A that had valued the company at US$400 million.[9]

In March 2025 the company was reported to be negotiating a round that would value it near US$10 billion.[10] On 5 June 2025, Anysphere confirmed a US$900 million Series C led by Thrive Capital, lifting its post-money valuation to US$9.9 billion.[11]

Anysphere crossed US$100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in January 2025, and topped US$500 million ARR by June 2025.

 

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Cursor (company) - Wikipedia

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Cursor is an AI-assisted integrated development environment for Windows[citation needed], macOS, and Linux[citation needed]. It is a fork of Visual Studio Code with additional AI features. Cursor is proprietary software and developed by Anysphere, a San Francisco-based startup company founded in 2022.[2]

Service

Cursor uses large language models to manipulate text with autocomplete and chat query function. It is a fork of Visual Studio Code.[2] Several media outlets have described Cursor as a vibe coding app.[3][4][5][6]

Cursor allows developers to produce code from natural language instructions. Users can generate or update parts of their code by providing prompts.[2] It can also index the codebase, which can be queried in natural language.[7] The editor offers "smart rewrite" capabilities, allowing users to change multiple lines of code simultaneously.[8]

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How I code with ONLY my voice

 

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SpaceX strikes $60 billion deal for the right to buy AI coding startup Cursor

SpaceX on Tuesday announced a unique deal with AI startup Cursor that will offer it the option to buy the company for $60 billion later this year.

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SpaceX strikes $60 billion deal for the right to buy AI coding startup Cursor​

SpaceX (SPAX.PVT) on Tuesday announced that it had struck a deal with AI coding tool maker Cursor, which gives SpaceX the option to purchase the startup later this year for $60 billion.

“SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI,” the post said.

“The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world’s most useful models,” the post said. “Cursor has also given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together.”

The deal is part of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s plan to transform the rocket company into an AI behemoth ahead of its upcoming IPO. Musk merged SpaceX with his xAI startup in February.

The SpaceX-Cursor tie-up also shows how AI startups continue to find larger partners in order to secure the compute needed to continue improving their models.

Earlier this week, for instance, Amazon (AMZN) announced a $5 billion investment in Anthropic that will give the AI startup broader access to its trainium chips.

The SpaceX IPO, targeted for June, is aiming for a $1.75 billion to $1.8 trillion valuation, potentially making it the largest in history.

 

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Cursor Team: Future of Programming with AI | Lex Fridman Podcast​

 

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Seems another over valued startup. What makes this any different from VisualStudio that has Co-pilot or Claude ?

Additionally these AI tools have not meaningfully enhanced productivity enough to reduce labor costs.

 

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Seems another over valued startup. What makes this any different from VisualStudio that has Co-pilot or Claude ?

Additionally these AI tools have not meaningfully enhanced productivity enough to reduce labor costs.

Cursor is different than CoPilot because it also does vibe coding vs CoPilots's concentration on autocomplete.

Cursor allows you to pick several AI that writes the code (Claude, Google Gemini, etc).

The thing you are missing is that AI prompting opens up an entirely new user base (stop thinking its just for software people).
I had a guy who has never written a line of code in his life show me how Cursor works...and he is paying them $20/month for it.

There are kids using it.

You can say at the Cursor prompt "I want a React front end talking to a java Spring Boot back end server using an Oracle database..." and it will do everything including deploying the server and services. You just keep piling stuff on at successive prompts and it keeps writing. It's crazy what it can do.

Then you say "I want the React front end to now have [this..that..and the other]..it should make a server call to get [this..that..and the other]. The server needs to use an LLM to scrape the web for [this..that..and the other] and send it back to the React screen".

Boom! It does it.

 

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Seems another over valued startup. What makes this any different from VisualStudio that has Co-pilot or Claude ?

Additionally these AI tools have not meaningfully enhanced productivity enough to reduce labor costs.

SpaceX to acquire the AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion

The deal will help to bolster the company's efforts to compete with rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI, which also offer popular coding tools.

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SpaceX to acquire the AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion​