Cursor quietly acquires Continue, an open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot

Cursor (Anysphere) has acquired Continue, the open-source AI coding assistant with roughly 34,000 GitHub stars, in a quiet acqui-hire that shuts down the hosted product and hands the codebase to the community. The deal consolidates Anysphere's position against GitHub Copilot whil

Continue was a popular choice for teams that wanted to run AI coding assistants against open-weight models (Qwen-Coder, DeepSeek-Coder, GLM-Coder) or against self-hosted inference. By absorbing Continue's user base and contributors, Cursor picks up both the open-model tooling and the workflow extensions that made Continue popular — useful as the company expands its enterprise footprint following the SpaceX acquisition announcement (see June 16 entry). The community-maintained fork of Continue is expected to live on, but the company behind it is now part of Anysphere.