Company record

Cursor

Cursor is an AI coding agent and editor whose agents build, test and demo features on their own, and it runs in the terminal, Slack and GitHub pull-request reviews. cursor.com

Ownership: SpaceX agreed to acquire Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, in an all-stock deal valuing it at $60 billion (announced June 16, 2026). Sources: TechCrunch, Reuters

Funding

Whether AI names Cursor

A company counts when an AI answer names it or cites its website. Answers vary from run to run, so each count is a dated sample.

Week by week

Answers that named or cited Cursor in each weekly sample of Presspool's AI coding questions, by the Monday of the sample week. A row is added every week.

Week ofAI coding
September 28, 202647 of 56
October 5, 202633 of 48
October 12, 202641 of 52
October 19, 202643 of 53
October 26, 202643 of 55
November 2, 202639 of 53

Sources AI cites when it names Cursor

Presspool asked its 8 AI coding questions on November 2, 2026; 39 of the 53 answers named or cited Cursor, on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews. The sites those 39 answers cited most:

  1. zapier.com: 8 of 39 answers
  2. github.com: 6 of 39 answers
  3. openai.com: 6 of 39 answers
  4. cursor.com: 5 of 39 answers
  5. youtube.com: 5 of 39 answers
  6. augmentcode.com: 4 of 39 answers
  7. kilo.ai: 4 of 39 answers
  8. landbase.com: 4 of 39 answers
  9. shakudo.io: 4 of 39 answers
  10. superblocks.com: 4 of 39 answers

Counted over only the answers that named or cited the company. Each count is a dated sample and does not say why the company was named.

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