Cursor is an AI-powered integrated development environment (IDE) developed by Anysphere Inc. Forked from Visual Studio Code, it blends a familiar interface with frontier large-language-model features such as natural-language code generation, smart rewrites, whole-codebase semantic search, and predictive tab-completion. Developers can prompt Cursor to refactor functions, query project docs, or generate boilerplate in one click, radically accelerating common workflows. Cross-platform binaries are available for macOS, Windows, and Linux, and a dedicated Privacy Mode ensures code never leaves the local machine—meeting SOC 2 standards. Since its public debut in 2023, Cursor has rapidly evolved, reaching v1.0 on June 4 2025 with features like BugBot code reviews and Background Agents for end-to-end task automation. Backed by major investors including OpenAI’s Startup Fund and Andreessen Horowitz, Cursor is positioning itself as the go-to AI pair-programmer for professional engineers worldwide.
