Gate News: On March 20, AI programming tool Cursor released the third-generation programming model Composer 2, achieving significant performance improvements and cost reductions. The standard version is priced at $0.50 per million tokens for input/output, and $2.50 for the full version, an 86% decrease compared to Composer 1.5; the fast version is priced at $1.50 and $7.50 respectively, set as the default option. Composer 2 scored 61.7% in the Terminal-Bench 2.0 evaluation, surpassing Opus 4.4’s 58.0%, but below GPT-5.4’s 75.1%. In the SWE-bench Multilingual test, scores increased from 65.9% to 73.7%; in CursorBench, scores rose from 44.2% to 61.3%. These advancements are attributed to ongoing pretraining and reinforcement learning techniques. Composer 2 is only available within Cursor and is not offered as a standalone API. Cursor’s parent company, Anysphere, is valued at $29.3 billion.