Cursor develops an AI-powered code editor built as a fork of Visual Studio Code. The tool integrates advanced artificial intelligence to augment the software development process, offering intelligent autocomplete, comprehensive codebase understanding, and autonomous AI agents capable of writing, modifying, and debugging code. Its technical work spans AI-assisted programming, next-edit prediction, multi-billion-file retrieval, speculative inference, and codebase understanding.
The company's product, also named Cursor, is used by millions of professional developers and more than half of Fortune 500 companies. It operates within the software development industry, focusing on building tools that aim to increase developer productivity through deep AI integration into the coding workflow.
