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Cursor Launches Composer 2 To Rival OpenAI, Anthropic

Composer 2 offers up to 86% lower costs and improved coding benchmarks, serving over 1 million daily users within Cursor's integrated AI coding platform.

  • Anysphere, a San Francisco startup, released Composer on Thursday, its third-generation in-house coding model designed to automate complex, agentic software engineering tasks within the Cursor environment.
  • Anysphere developed the model using self-summarization techniques to handle long-horizon coding workflows, addressing context-window limitations that hinder traditional agentic models.
  • On Terminal-Bench 2.0, Composer scores 61.7%, outperforming Anthropic's Claude Opus at 58.0%, though OpenAI's GPT-5 leads at 75.1% on the industry-standard coding benchmark.
  • Cursor is positioning Composer as cost-effective, starting at $0.50 per million input tokens—about 86% cheaper than its Previous Composer—while making a faster variant the default option.
  • As OpenAI and Anthropic increasingly ship their own coding agents, Cursor must prove its integrated platform and team controls provide unique value to justify its position in the market.
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AI Coding Startup Cursor Plans New Model to Rival Anthropic, OpenAI

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