Composer 2
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Composer 2 is an AI model released by Cursor (now part of SpaceXSI) on Thursday, Mar 19 2026, 30 days after Grok 4.20 Beta. Benchmark results (shown below) cover SWE-Bench Multilingual, Next.js Evals, and Terminal-Bench 2.0.
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Composer 2 was released by Cursor on March 19, 2026 as a coding agent model trained for longer software-engineering tasks. Cursor described its first continued-pretraining run for the line, followed by reinforcement learning on tasks requiring hundreds of actions. The model was designed to navigate a repository and carry work through multiple edits and tool interactions.
Cursor's announcement highlighted improvements on Terminal-Bench 2.0 and SWE-bench Multilingual. It also offered a faster serving variant at a higher token price, separating response speed from the model's stated intelligence. That gave users a deployment tradeoff while preserving the focus on practical coding inside the Cursor environment.
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Composer 2 was released by Cursor (now part of SpaceXSI) on Thursday, Mar 19 2026.