Cursor AI-Killer Zed is Here! [Video]

Cursor AI, the ‘ChatGPT’ of coding, now has a new rival, Zed AI, in addition to Magic and Codeium, among others. 

— Zed (@zeddotdev) August 20, 2024

Zed Industries recently released Zed AI, a code editor which brings LLMs directly into your editor with an extensible, text-centric approach. Zed was founded in 2021 by Nathan Sobo, who previously worked at GitHub, where he built and led the Atom text editor team until 2018.

“Switched from Cursor to Zed this week and am really enjoying it so far. It’s faster and I like their approach to AI,” said Nathan Baschez, the founder of Lex. “Also love editing and saving files directly in the search results page — makes refactoring much easier,” he added. 

Zed AI, powered by Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.5, offers advanced code generation. The company is also testing a new Fast Edit mode with a small group of users. The AI-assisted code editor …