Meet Void, YC-backed Open Source Cursor Alternative [Video]

AI code editors like Cursor, Zed, Codeium, and others, are all in the news, and for all the right reasons. Now, we also have Void, the YC-backed startup, which has launched a code editor with advanced AI features and focuses on privacy with its open source approach. 

Similar to Cursor’s approach, Void is also a fork of VS Code, integrating the features of Cursor and Copilot, while offering open source benefits. The founders Mathew Pareles, CTO and Andrew Pareles CEO are part of YC’s 2024 summer batch. As graduates from Cornell University, their research interests include transformers and quantum computing respectively. 

Click here to check out the GitHub repository.

What’s different?

Their startup aims to solve the problem of closed source models entirely. “Cursor …