GitHub Copilot was a pioneer in AI development support and is the clear market leader. After just two years, he can point to more than 77,000 corporate clients and are Accounts for more than 40 percent of GitHub’s revenue growth Responsible.
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However, competition never sleeps. Two smaller start-ups than GitHub have caused a sensation with their AI development tools in recent months: Cursor from Anysphere and windsurf from codiaumUnlike GitHub Copilot, which is available as an extension for various IDEs and editors, both are independent code editors and are based on a fork of Visual Studio Code. Anisphere has raised $60 million so far for Cursor development To collect financing. established in 2021 Kodium raises over $150 million in August 2024,
Also as open source
The open source community is also jumping on this bandwagon. For example, Glass DevTools is launching another fork of Visual Studio Code with Editor Void. It is known as an open source alternative to cursors and is explicitly intended to work with locally driven large language models (LLMs). However, Zero is only in the early stages of development. Those interested can join the waiting list for the beta program or compile the source code themselves, available on GitHub.
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