AI - Cursor launches Origin - a GitHub rival!!!
A few months ago OpenAI forked Git and we have not really heard much about it since… I thought nothing of it thinking that eventually they will come up with their own GitHub. Little did I know that someone will beat them to it, and that it will be Cursor (now owned by SpaceXAI) who will be the first to come up with GitHub alternative. And they could not have picked a better time as it all happened when GitHub was down (which happens a LOT lately 🤣).
Forked Git by OpenAI news:
Official announcement
Currently it is in BETA!!! So be careful 🤣
A git forge for the agentic era Code is moving faster than any infrastructure was built to handle. Origin was designed for this moment.
Early beta now available on all paid plans.
How it will work
Initially Origin is meant to work alongside GitHub, which is a very smart move 😉 Although, I am sure eventually the push will be to just use Origin instead of GitHub 😊
From their own blog
Bring your GitHub repos
Your GitHub repos can sit alongside the ones Cursor hosts. Connect GitHub to Cursor, pick your org, and you’ll see the repos you can sync. Select one and Cursor pulls it in. You choose what gets synced and can disconnect a repo at any time. Anyone with read or write access to a synced repo can view it in Cursor too.
Synced repos update in real time. Browse, search, and pull from the copy in Origin. Pushes keep going to GitHub, which stays the source of truth for anything started there. Icons next to each repo name tell you which ones Cursor hosts and which came from GitHub.
Some of the reactions 🤣
NEWS: SpaceXAI’s Cursor launched a GitHub rival.
Elon is after Microsoft now!!Cursor is planning to kill Github
Cursor just launched one of its biggest updates yet: OriginMicrosoft bought GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018 to compete with AWS. This year it started renting AWS servers to keep GitHub online.That’s the backdrop for what Cursor just shipped.
Cursor’s attempt (Origin) at building a GitHub alternative might be one of the most important and interesting AI-era experiments to watch.Sync to OriginCursor Origin can replace GitHub…
And by far my favourite tweet 🤣🤣🤣 - what a way to promote your new launch 🤣
We were going to ship this earlier, but GitHub was down