Visual Studio Magazine

Forked Again: AWS's Kiro Is Latest AI Assistant Based on VS Code

Amazon Web Services (AWS) last week announced an agentic AI IDE called Kiro, adding to a growing camp of AI coding assistants based on Microsoft's ubiquitous open-source based Visual Studio Code ...
Neowin

OpenAI eyes $3 billion acquisition of Windsurf, a powerful AI code editor0 0

OpenAI is in talks to buy the AI-native code editor Windsurf, which we at Neowin have reported on frequently in recent months. Unlike Visual Studio Code which lets you install AI tools as extensions, ...
SiliconANGLE

Mistral AI introduces Code programming assistant

Mistral AI SAS today debuted Mistral Code, a tool that uses four of its artificial intelligence models to help developers write code faster. Paris-based Mistral AI raised $640 million last year at a ...
SiliconANGLE

Nvidia, Google back $2.3B round for AI code editor startup Cursor

Cursor, the developer of a widely used artificial intelligence code editor, has closed a $2.3 billion later-stage investment at a $29.3 billion valuation. Accel and Coatue led the Series D round. They ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Goes Transparent as Open-Source AI Editor

According to Microsoft, the decision to open source GitHub Copilot Chat stems from a growing demand for transparency in how AI-assisted developer tools work -- particularly around prompt engineering, ...