Cursor's first-ever Compile developer summit laid out its vision for the AI agent era: an in-house 1.5-trillion-parameter foundation model, a new Git platform called Origin, and a swath of infrastructure for agentic development. Oh, and on the same day, SpaceX announced it's acquiring Cursor's parent company, Anysphere, in an all-stock deal valuing the startup at $60 billion.
The announcements mark Cursor's evolution from an IDE helper into an AI-native software engineering platform. The centerpiece of that push is a 1.5-trillion-parameter general-purpose base model currently in training. CEO Michael Truell said the model has already surpassed 10...