Anysphere’s Cursor brings AI coding agents to web and mobile browsers

Well-funded artificial intelligence startup Anysphere Inc. is expanding beyond its viral generative AI code editor and into “agentic AI” with the launch of recent web and mobile browser-based orchestration tools for coding agents.

Anysphere last month closed on a bumper $900 million funding round that valued it at a cool $9.9 billion. It’s the corporate behind the favored AI code generating assistant Cursor, which automates software writing tasks for developers. Cursor embeds itself directly into the programmer’s integrated development environment and responds to natural language prompts by generating code, explaining it and performing various other tasks.

With today’s launch, Anysphere is accelerating an expansion beyond the IDE that began in May when it launched “background agents” that might help to automate coding tasks with none supervision from developers. A month later, because it announced its big funding round, it also debuted a Slack integration that makes it easy to assign tasks to those background agents inside the popular chat application by tagging them @Cursor, just like the best way that Cognition AI Inc.’s Devin coding agent works.

Once more, Anysphere is putting its AI coding agents into more places, and this time it’s targeting the net browser. With its latest application, developers can send natural language prompts from a mobile or web-based browser on to the background agents, instructing them to perform tasks like writing latest features or fixing bugs. Using the net app, developers can even monitor fleets of agents which can be busy working on different tasks, check their progress and register those which have been accomplished inside the underlying codebase.

Anysphere explained that developers can instruct its AI agents to finish tasks via the net app, and in the event that they’re unable to achieve this, they will seamlessly switch to the IDE to take over and see what’s caused it to return unstuck. Each of its agents has its own shareable link, which developers can click on to see its progress.

Cursor’s evolution has helped to grow its popularity, and Anysphere said today it’s now generating greater than $500 million in annualized recurring revenue from subscribers to the tool. It counts greater than half of the Fortune 500 as customers, including illustrious names akin to Nvidia Corp., Adobe Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc.

Last month, Anysphere launched a brand new $200-per-month “Ultra” tier for Cursor that’s geared toward these kinds of huge enterprise users, giving them more advanced functionality and greater scale. So far as today’s move is anxious, it’s an effort to “remove the friction” for these users, Anysphere Head of Product Engineering Andrew Milich told TechCrunch. He explained that customers want Cursor to operate in additional places, and “solve more of the issues they’re having.”

The brand new web app can be available to all subscribers who’ve access to its background agents, which principally means everyone except those on the free tier.

Anysphere is just not the primary AI startup to launch coding agents that may use multiple tools, but Anysphere Chief Executive Ben Thompson told Stratechery in an interview last month that it was crucial to attend for AI reasoning models to advance to some extent where it will possibly make sure the accuracy and reliability of its agents. That point has come, he said, so hopefully Cursor’s users won’t find themselves bogged down coping with mistakes.

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