Anysphere, the parent company of Cursor, has hired Boris Cherny and Cat Wu from Anthropic's Claude Code, as reported by The Information.
Cherny will join Anysphere, and Wu will become the head of product at Anysphere, focusing on agentic features on Cursor.
Anysphere's success, partly due to using Anthropic's AI models, recently secured $900 million in funding and surpassed $500 million in ARR.
Developers are showing increased interest in Anthropic's Claude Code due to its coding capabilities, while major tech companies are seeing talent movements intensified by Meta's actions.