--- title: Cursor quietly acquires Continue, an open-source... description: Cursor has quietly acquired Continue, the open-source AI coding assistant with 34,300 GitHub stars that positioned itself as a transparent alternative to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cursor-quietly-acquires-continue-an-open-source-alternative-to-github-copilot-2jnqcpaln twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Cursor quietly acquires Continue, an open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot | daily.dev og:description: Cursor has quietly acquired Continue, the open-source AI coding assistant with 34,300 GitHub stars that positioned itself as a transparent alternative to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cursor-quietly-acquires-continue-an-open-source-alternative-to-github-copilot-2jnqcpaln og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2jNQcpAln.png og:image:alt: Cursor quietly acquires Continue, an open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Cursor quietly acquires Continue, an open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 5 min read · 9 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Cursor has quietly acquired Continue, the open-source AI coding assistant with 34,300 GitHub stars that positioned itself as a transparent alternative to proprietary tools like GitHub Copilot. The deal appears to be an acqui-hire — Continue's product has been shut down, users have until July 15 to export their data, and the codebase has been handed off to the community under its Apache 2.0 license. Co-founder Nate Sesti is joining Cursor, while other team members have dispersed. The acquisition is part of Cursor's broader consolidation strategy, which also includes previous acquisitions of Supermaven and Graphite, and coincides with SpaceX's $60 billion investment in Cursor. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What happened to the Continue AI coding assistant after Cursor acquired it? Continue has been shut down following its acquisition by Cursor. Around June 16, Continue's homepage announced the acquisition, existing users have until July 15 to export their data before it is deleted, and recurring billing has been disabled. The team pushed a final 2.0.0 release removing telemetry before closing, leaving the Apache 2.0 licensed codebase available for the community to fork. _Developers relying on Continue for AI coding should track daily.dev for how the shutdown affects migration options._ ### How many GitHub stars and how much funding did Continue have before Cursor acquired it? Continue had accumulated 34,300 GitHub stars and 4,800 forks by the time of its acquisition, and had raised in the region of $5 million, including a $3 million seed round announced in early 2025. The startup, a Y Combinator Summer 2023 graduate, positioned itself as an open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot with a focus on developer data control. _Anyone weighing open-source versus proprietary coding assistants can follow this consolidation trend on daily.dev._ ### What other companies has Cursor acquired besides Continue? Cursor has acquired AI coding assistant Supermaven and code review startup Graphite over the past 18 months, in addition to Continue. Unlike Graphite, which continues operating as an independent product, the Continue deal resembles an acqui-hire, with the product shuttered and only co-founder Nate Sesti confirmed to be joining Cursor. Cursor also unveiled Origin, a GitHub-competing code hosting platform, around the same time. _Teams evaluating AI coding tool vendors can keep up with Cursor's acquisition pattern on daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@theacademe** · 3 upvotes > Cursor acquires Continue right after SpaceX acquires Cursor. 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