Cursor acquires Continue, its open-source rival.

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    "title": "Cursor acquires Continue, its open-source rival.",
    "excerpt": "Cursor acquires Continue, its open-source rival.\n\nKey takeaways.\n\n* Cursor has acquired Continue, an open-source AI coding assistant with over 70,000 GitHub stars\n* Continue will remain open source after the acquisition, addressing community concerns\n* The deal consolidates two major players challenging GitHub Copilot's dominance\n\nCursor has acquired Continue, the open-source AI coding assistant that built a following as a privacy-focused alternative to GitHub Copilot. The deal, announced quietly this week, brings together two of the fastest-growing challengers to Microsoft's dominant coding tool.\n\nContinue has accumulated over 70,000 stars on GitHub and more than 500,000 VS Code installs. Developers gravitated toward it because it let them connect their own AI models, including locally-run LLMs, instead of being locked into a single vendor. That flexibility made it popular with enterprises worried about sending proprietary code to third-party APIs.\n\nCursor, built by Anysphere, takes a different approach. It is not a plugin but a standalone AI-first code editor forked from VS Code. Rather than just autocompleting lines, Cursor reads entire codebases and lets developers chat with their projects. The company raised over $60 million in its Series A and has become the default editor for a vocal slice of the developer community.\n\nWhy did Cursor buy an open-source competitor?\n\nOn...",
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