Amazon racing to roll out AI chatbot Cursor amid employee pressure: Report
Tech major
Amazon
is in advanced talks to roll out an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Cursor, across its workforce, amid pressure from its employees seeking access to the popular AI chatbot, according to internal company communications reviewed by Business Insider.
The report added, an Amazon HR manager who oversees the company's AI adoption told employees via messaging platform Slack that the company is working "asap" to integrate Cursor. Though they added that the deployment might take some time, as 'a few high priority security issues' to Amazon's tight security requirements.
This move indicates a significant shift for the US tech major, which typically doesn't encourage its employees to use any external AI tools since the company provides its own
AI coding assistant
called Q and an internal AI chatbot named 'Cedric'.
The report further added that in a Slack group dedicated to Cursor discussion, approximately 1,500 Amazon employees participated to show interest in the tool. Internal polling results within the group showed more than 60 Amazon employees preferred Cursor over other competing tools, such as Windsurf, which only 10 people chose.
Last year, Cursor's desktop application gained popularity, particularly for its ability to assist with coding using Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet model. Its features got a further boost when
Microsoft
added the model to GitHub Copilot.
The platform's rise continued after AI researcher Andrej Karpathy helped popularise the idea of '
vibe coding
', where developers let AI take the lead on writing code. By March, the tool had over one million daily users, highlighting its rapid growth and appeal.
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Company chief Andy Jassy acknowledged Cursor's popularity during last month's earnings call, citing the company as a key driver behind the "explosion of coding agents."
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