Top Stories· August 18, 2026 at 10:14 p.m.
Cursor Launches Rival Code-Hosting Platform Amid GitHub Performance Issues
Key takeaways
- Cursor launches Origin
- Origin allows interoperability with GitHub
- GitHub suffers outage on launch day
A new code-hosting platform, Origin, has been launched by Cursor, an AI startup recently acquired by SpaceX. The platform aims to provide services similar to GitHub, including collaborative coding, pull-requests, and repository storage. Notably, developers can use Origin alongside GitHub, allowing for interoperability between the two platforms. This launch coincides with ongoing concerns over GitHub's performance, as the latter suffered a worldwide outage on the same day. Despite GitHub's dominance in the field, with 180 million users as of last October, Cursor's move indicates growing competition.
