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12 articles tagged with Cursor

September 4, 2026
product update

xAI Brings Grok Bot to iPad and Android, Cuts Price From $300/Month to $20/Month

xAI has expanded its Grok Bot AI agent app from iPhone and Mac to iPad and Android, while slashing the price from $300/month to compatibility with the $20/month Cursor Pro plan. Enterprise customers using Grok or Cursor get free access for a limited time.

August 29, 2026
product updateOpenAI

OpenAI to Cut Off Cursor's API Access After SpaceXAI Acquisition, Effective November 12, 2026

OpenAI announced it will stop providing its models to AI coding assistant Cursor on November 12, 2026, following Cursor's acquisition by Elon Musk's SpaceXAI. The company cited a lack of confidence that SpaceXAI would honor its terms of service, pointing to xAI's admitted use of OpenAI outputs to train competing models.

product updateOpenAI

OpenAI to Cut Off Cursor's API Access Nov. 12 After SpaceX Acquisition

OpenAI will terminate its API contract with AI coding tool Cursor on November 12, 2026, following SpaceX's acquisition of the company. OpenAI cites Elon Musk's past contract violations, including the 2022 Twitter data cutoff and admitted use of rival AI outputs to train Grok.

product updateOpenAI

OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor's Model Access After SpaceX Acquisition, Effective November 12

OpenAI announced it is ending its partnership with Cursor after the coding-assistant company's acquisition by SpaceX, cutting off direct model access on November 12. Cursor says OpenAI models account for only 5% of its traffic and is seeking to reverse the decision.

August 21, 2026
product update

xAI and Cursor Launch Grok Bot, an Agentic AI App for Mac and iPhone

xAI (SpaceXAI) and Cursor have launched Grok Bot in beta, an AI agent app for Mac and iPhone that signs into existing tools to complete work autonomously. Access is currently limited to top-tier SuperGrok and Cursor subscribers, with wider availability rolling out within 10 days of launch.

August 18, 2026
product update

Cursor Launches Origin, a GitHub Rival Code Hosting Platform, Amid GitHub Outages

Cursor has launched Origin, a code hosting platform that handles repositories, pull requests, and collaborative editing — directly competing with GitHub. The launch coincided with a six-hour global GitHub outage with a reported 20% error rate.

August 12, 2026
model release

xAI Launches Grok 4.6, Claims Parity with GPT-5.6 Sol and Near-Parity with Claude Fable 5

xAI released Grok 4.6, claiming intelligence on par with OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and just one point behind Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 Max on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. The model is priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, with a faster variant at double that rate.

August 7, 2026
product updateAmazon Web Services

Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel Launch Agent Plugins, a Shared Packaging Standard for AI Agent Extensions

Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel have released Agent Plugins, an open standard defining a single package format for AI agent extensions. Version 1.0.0 covers Agent Skills and MCP servers, but leaves marketplaces, permissions, and runtime out of scope.

July 28, 2026
product update

Cursor Launches ₹649/Month 'Start' Plan for Indian Developers

Cursor has launched Cursor Start, a new ₹649 per month subscription plan tailored for developers in India, complete with local UPI billing. The plan includes access to Grok 4.5, Cursor's Composer model, always-on cloud agents, and Cursor for iOS.

July 26, 2026
product update

Cursor's New Agent Swarm Architecture Splits Planning and Coding to Cut Costs by Up to 15x

Cursor's upgraded agent swarm splits AI coding work between expensive frontier planner models and cheap worker models, reaching 100 percent accuracy on a from-scratch SQLite-to-Rust benchmark. Cursor claims the split cuts codebase size by up to 85 percent and worker costs by a factor of 15 compared to running a single frontier model alone.

July 9, 2026
model release

SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5 at $2/$6 per million tokens, trained with Cursor on NVIDIA GB300 GPUs

SpaceXAI has released Grok 4.5, the first model developed after its rebrand from xAI and trained in partnership with Cursor. The model is priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, and was trained across tens of thousands of NVIDIA GB300 GPUs focused on coding, science, engineering, and math datasets.

July 8, 2026
model release

SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5 at $2/$6 per million tokens, targets coding and enterprise work

Elon Musk's SpaceXAI has released Grok 4.5, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. The model, trained alongside recently-acquired Cursor, is positioned as a coding and enterprise tool that claims to outperform Claude Opus 4.8 on several benchmarks while undercutting it on price by 60-76%.