Cursor Is Developing an AI Agent to Compete With Claude Cowork

Cursor is developing a general-purpose AI agent meant to compete with popular tools like Anthropic’s Claude Cowork, two people familiar with the project said, part of a broader push by the company to diversify beyond coding-focused tools.

Work on the new agent began after Cursor started leasing compute capacity in April from SpaceX’s AI unit, known as SpaceXAI, the people said, and comes ahead of SpaceX’s planned $60 billion acquisition of Cursor. The new agent could buttress the enterprise business of SpaceX’s AI unit once that deal closes. It follows the two companies’ joint introduction of a new model, Grok 4.5, meant to perform engineering tasks as well as general knowledge work.