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Continue built an open-source coding agent and AI developer tooling designed to amplify developers rather than automate them. The company has been acquired by Cursor, and its open-source codebase remains freely available as a foundation for others. The site notes FAQs addressing data, subscriptions, and the status of open source after the acquisition.
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Enterprise AI Coding Assistants →61%positive
Where Continue ranks in AI
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Continue — its @Codebase feature indexes the workspace using embeddings + keyword search and retrieves relevant files automatically.

Continue (VS Code & JetBrains) : An open-source, highly customizable AI assistant extension available for both VS Code and JetBrains IDEs