{"id":371590,"date":"2026-04-02T18:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/371590\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:24:13","slug":"cursor-launches-a-new-ai-agent-experience-to-take-on-claude-code-and-codex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/371590\/","title":{"rendered":"Cursor Launches a New AI Agent Experience to Take On Claude Code and Codex"},"content":{"rendered":"

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. The product, which was developed under the code name Glass, is Cursor\u2019s response to agentic coding tools like Anthropic\u2019s Claude Code<\/a> and OpenAI\u2019s Codex, which have taken off with millions of developers in recent months.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the last few months, our profession has completely changed,\u201d said Jonas Nelle, one of Cursor\u2019s heads of engineering, in an interview with WIRED. \u201cA lot of the product that got Cursor here is not as important going forward anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cursor increasingly finds itself in competition with leading AI labs for developers and enterprise customers. The company pioneered one of the first and most popular ways for developers to code with AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google\u2014making Cursor one of these companies\u2019 biggest AI customers. But in the last 18 months, OpenAI and Anthropic have launched agentic coding products<\/a> of their own, and started offering them through highly subsidized subscriptions that have put pressure on Cursor\u2019s business.<\/p>\n

While Cursor\u2019s 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\u2014sometimes spinning up multiple agents at the same time. Cursor 3 is the startup\u2019s version of an \u201cagent-first\u201d coding product. According to Nelle, the product is optimized for a world where developers spend their days \u201cconversing with different agents, checking in on them, and seeing the work that they did,\u201d rather than writing code themselves.<\/p>\n

Cursor is launching its new agentic coding interface inside its existing desktop app, where it will live alongside the IDE. At the center of a new window in Cursor, there\u2019s a text box where users can type, in natural language, a task they\u2019d like an AI agent to complete\u2014it looks more like a chatbot than a coding environment. Press enter, the AI agent sets to work without requiring the developer to write a single line of code. In a sidebar on the left, developers can view and manage all of the AI agents<\/a> they have running in Cursor.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s unique about Cursor 3, compared to desktop apps for Claude Code and Codex, is that it integrates an agent-first product with Cursor\u2019s AI-powered development environment. In a demo, Cursor\u2019s other cohead of engineering for Cursor 3, Alexi Robbins, showed WIRED how users can prompt an agent in the cloud to spin up a feature, and then review the code it generated locally on their computer.<\/p>\n

Nelle and Robbins argue it doesn\u2019t matter which interface developers are spending their time in\u2014they just want people using Cursor.<\/p>\n

Competing With the AI Labs<\/p>\n

I visited Cursor’s office in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood last week. The startup is reportedly raising fresh capital at a $50 billion valuation<\/a>\u2014nearly double what it was valued in a funding round<\/a> last fall\u2014and has expanded into an old movie theater. Cursor employees used to toss their shoes in a pile by the door upon entry, but now there’s a row of large shoe racks, signaling one way in which the company is growing up.<\/p>\n

Yet Cursor still feels like a startup. Employees tell me that\u2019s part of the appeal of working there; the company can ship quickly and doesn’t feel too corporate. But as it finds itself racing to catch up to Anthropic and OpenAI in the agentic coding race, that scrappiness may not be enough. This battle\u2014the one to create the best AI coding agent\u2014may be Cursor\u2019s most capital-intensive chapter yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cursor announced Thursday the launch of Cursor 3, a new product interface that allows users to spin up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9035,1463,343,4194,85,46,6591,1748,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-371590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-agentic-ai","9":"tag-anthropic","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-coding","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-model-behavior","15":"tag-openai","16":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}