How Cursor uses GPT-5

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OpenAI shares how Cursor, the AI-powered code editor, integrates and uses GPT-5 in its workflow. This highlights a significant real-world deployment of GPT-5 in a popular developer tool.

Learn how Cursor uses GPT-5.
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