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Regarding large models, what are the big manufacturers rolling out recently? The latest news is:AI Programming Tools。

After all, it is so popular that an 8-year-old girl uses it to learn AI, and the "performance" of building a chat robot in 45 minutes has been watched online by 1.8 million people.

That’s right, the rumored “reference template” is this new top AI code editor picked by the 8-year-old daughter of Cloudflare’s vice president.Cursor。

It's so popular that it's no exaggeration to say that it's recommended by the whole network.

Look, Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and known as the "Cyber ​​Bodhisattva", after watching the little girl's operation, continued to recommend it despite being questioned for "selling goods":

He also boldly predicted that in the future programming will only require pressing tab frantically.

Logan Kilpatrick, the OpenAI general who was poached by Google, also supported him and said:

Only people who have never used Cursor will think you are charging money for advertising.

And speaking of Cursor, the company behind it, Anysphere, is also quite interesting.

Founded by four MIT academic elites, OpenAI invested in the company in its early days, investing US$8 million, accounting for 72.7% of the round of financing.

However, the recent wave of popularity relies on Claude-3.5-Sonnet from Anthropic, OpenAI's rival.

“The best AI code editor so far”

Regardless of whether you have used Cursor before, now is the time to experience the enthusiastic feedback from programmers:

In addition to making code writing easier, Cursor has even evolved to the "0 manual code" stage.

Here, netizen Mckay Wrigley showed the latest gameplay——

With Cursor AI+Voice,Just open your mouth and speak, this guy built a financial dashboard in 5 minutes.

Due to the large number of onlookers, the young man later opened a class on the spot, and thousands of people signed up for his Cursor course.

In fact, Cursor was originally developed by Microsoft's open source code editor VS Code.A branch。

It provides multiple AI models, including GPT-4, GPT-4o, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and you can generate code by chatting with the large model.

In addition, AI chat is also suitable for code review and completion.

Query information in the code repository or reference specific files directly through the chat interface without switching to other websites or search engines.

In addition to supporting a wide range of models, Cursor also has many commendable aspects in product design.

For example, the"Cursor Position Prediction"New features.

After modifying a code, AI automatically predicts the next place you want to modify, eliminating manual navigation.

Another example is the multi-line editing function, where AI suggests modifying multiple lines of code at once, saving more time and is often used for formatting adjustments.

By combining the two, you can easily adjust all the formats at once:

When you modify the format of a line of code, you only need to press the tab key a few times and the format of the entire file will be adjusted.

These designs are also the main difference between Cursor and competitors (such as GitHub Copilot).

Lianchuang Sanger said that Cursor mainly focuses on the functions after automatic completion, that is, finding and fixing errors, and answering code bases.

When people think of AI+coding, they first think of AI-driven automatic coding. In this regard, tools such as GitHub Copilot have done a good job.

He also wrote a blog post about tips for fast code editing.

In addition to the gameplay mentioned at the beginning, other netizens have also used Cursor to build their own productivity tools.

3 weeks, 11,000 lines of code to buildVideo Editor, or the kind that is supported by both web and mobile terminals.

It’s not a dream to create a Figma plugin in just a few minutes.

By the way, there is another figure that cannot be ignored among these gameplays - Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

Although OpenAI is the financial backer of Cursor, Cursor will now quietly switch the default model to Claude (doge) when a new user calls up code completion for the first time.

The reason is that it works well.

OpenAI bets on $400 million valuation

At present, Cursor's traffic has surpassed GitHub Copilot, the pioneer in the AI ​​code editor industry.

△Source: Similarweb

Even though the subscription fee is twice as expensive.

△Left: Cursor, right: GitHub Copilot

You should know that Cursor was not officially released until January 2023, while GitHub Copilot was released in June 2021 and the subscription version was launched in June 2022.

Just recently, Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, completed a new round of financing of US$60 million (approximately RMB 430 million), led by a16z, with participation from Thrive Capital, OpenAI Startup Fund, Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean, and OpenAI Research Scientist Noam Brown.

The founders of Stripe, GitHub, Ramp, Perplexity, and OpenAI are also among the investors.

After this round of financing, Anysphere’s valuation reached US$400 million (approximately RMB 2.85 billion).

Forbes quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that the company's annual recurring revenue has exceeded US$10 million (approximately RMB 71.24 million).

The official blog shows that Cursor has more than 30,000 users, including some of the world's largest companies, famous research laboratories and start-ups.

There are four founders of Anysphere: Aman Sanger, Sualeh Asif, Michael Truell and Arvid Lunnemark.

All four graduated from MIT.

According to Aman Sanger, he and Michael Truell were high school classmates and later went to MIT together. Cursor was born out of a short attempt after they graduated:

They are all avid users of GitHub Copilot, and based on this love, they began to try to apply Transformer to CAD software in June 2022.

Due to limitations in data and model capabilities, this attempt was not successful. It was not until December 2022 that they gained early access to GPT-4 and discovered that GPT-4 could completely change the experience of AI programming, which prompted them to pick up the idea and start building Cursor.

In August 2023, the Cursor team consisted of only five people. Even today, the team remains small: 12 engineers and researchers.

Finally, let me share a piece of gossip: a project comparable to Cursor has been launched in China.