Anysphere enlists Supermaven to build the ultimate AI-powered code editor
Anysphere announced its acquisition of Supermaven, the AI-powered coding assistant with jumps and deletions support, available as an extension for many popular editors. Although the Supermaven extension will be maintained, the priority will be to strengthen the Cursor editor.
Less than a week after reports of the unsolicited bidding war over Anysphere emerged, the startup is announcing its most recent acquisition: Supermaven, Tabnine creator Jacob Jackson's coding copilot, which in September raised $12 million to supercharge its VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Neovim, and Zed plugins. When Supermaven announced this fundraiser, it also admitted it had reached the limits of what could be done within an editor extension, sharing its intentions to start working on a full-featured editor.
In a blog post announcing the acquisition, Jackson explained that while Supemaven was readying itself to build its editor, the startup contacted the Cursor team, eventually realizing that both teams could develop a better product than any one startup could materialize alone. Following this realization, Supermaven decided to join Cursor. Both companies have confirmed that the Supermaven plugin will not be discontinued, but the priority will be the Cursor editor. Anysphere also outlined the possibility of an upcoming improved version of its Tab model which is particularly adept at handling long sequences of changes.
