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Cursor Publishes a New AI Agent Experience to Take On Claude Code and Codex
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Cursor announced Thursday the launch of Cursor 3, a new product interface that allows users to spin up AI coding agents to complete tasks on their behalf.
Key facts
- What’s unique about Cursor 3, compared to desktop apps for Claude Code and Codex, is that it integrates an agent-first product with Cursor’s AI-powered development environment
- The startup is reportedly raising fresh capital at a $50 billion valuation —nearly double what it was valued in a funding round last fall—and has expanded into an old movie theater
- Cursor 3 is the startup’s version of an “agent-first” coding product
- The reporter visited Cursor's office in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood last week
Summary
“In the last few months, our profession has completely changed,” said Jonas Nelle, one of Cursor’s heads of engineering, . Cursor increasingly finds itself in competition with leading AI labs for developers and enterprise customers. While Cursor’s core product lets developers code in an integrated development environment (IDE) and tap an AI model for help, new products like Claude Code and Codex center around allowing developers to off-load entire tasks to an AI agent—sometimes spinning up multiple agents at the same time. Cursor is launching its new agentic coding interface inside its existing desktop app, where it will live alongside the IDE.