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Many artificial intelligence startups are still struggling to find paying customers, but not Anysphere Inc., the maker of AI-powered coding assistant Cursor. Despite not having spent a single dollar on marketing, it’s become one of the fastest-growing startups of all time, not to mention part of the daily routine for software programmers at businesses ranging from deep tech companies like OpenAI to consumer brands such as Instacart, Spotify and Uber to organizations not generally associated with software, including Major League Baseball.
Cursor is an AI-infused code editor that can analyze a programmer’s actions and suggest the next few lines. It also offers a chatbot that users can prod with code-related questions. Cursor is neither the only coding assistant available nor the first. But users have taken to its interface, which was built atop Microsoft Corp.’s popular code editor Visual Studio Code, and its support for a wide range of large language models, including its own and those of OpenAI and Anthropic. “It just makes a thing that you do every day better and faster,” says Anysphere President Oskar Schulz.