Anysphere, the parent company of the popular AI-powered coding platform Cursor, has hired two ‘leaders’ from Anthropic’s Claude Code, The Information reported on July 1.
According to a report, Boris Cherny, who led the development of Claude Code, is set to join Anysphere. While Cherny himself confirmed this, he also revealed that Cat Wu, the product manager for Claude Code, will join the head of product at Anysphere.
Cherny also reportedly revealed that the two new hires will work on agentic features on Cursor.
While Claude Code is a competitor to Cursor’s offerings, one of the many reasons for the latter’s unprecedented success and growth can be attributed to using Anthropic’s AI models underneath its platform. The Claude AI models are one of the most popular models used by developers on Cursor.
Recently, Anysphere secured $900 million in Series C funding, led by investors including Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. It further announced that it has surpassed $500 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). A few days ago, Cursor also announced a $200-per-month ‘Ultra’ plan, which offers 20 times more usage than the $20-per-month Pro tier.
On the other hand, developers are increasingly preferring Anthropic’s Claude Code, owing to the coding capabilities of the company’s flagship Claude Opus 4 models.
Over the past few days, the movement of talent among major tech companies has been intensified, on account of Meta.
The company behind the Llama family of open-source AI models hired numerous accomplished AI engineers and researchers to build a team for its ‘super intelligence’ efforts. Several top names on this list were lured away from OpenAI, with hefty hiring fees of up to $100 million.
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