Musk Poaches Cursor's Two Genius Teens

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• •Cursor's founders—Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, and Aman Sanger—are all MIT Computer Science graduates from the class of 2022 who met while studying and launched the company Anysphere in 2022.[1][2]
• •Cursor, developed by Anysphere, is a proprietary fork of Visual Studio Code featuring AI-powered autocomplete, natural language code generation, codebase indexing, and smart rewrite capabilities for multi-line edits.[5]
• •Anysphere grew from a 4-person founding team to over 300 employees, achieving $300M ARR, 1M+ users, and a $2.6B-$29B valuation through rapid scaling and investments from OpenAI, Nvidia, and Google.[1][2][4]

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