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Michael Truell
Michael Truell builds AI at SpaceXAI and co-founded Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, which joined SpaceX in August 2026. He studied computer science and mathematics at MIT and was a Dorm Room Fund student investment partner.
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- Based in
- San Francisco
xAI
Aug 2026 — PresentAI
Cursor
Jan 2022 — Present
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-founded Cursor and leads the AI coding-tools company as CEO.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2021 — 2021
Research
Octant
2020 — 2020
Intern
Computational chemistry
Dorm Room Fund
2019 — 2019
Student Investment Partner (Class of 2019)
Intern
Language models for feed ranking
Two Sigma
2018 — 2018
Intern
Co-created Halite III
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2017 — 2017Research
Probabilistic programming (RSI Summer Program)
Two Sigma
2016 — 2016Intern
Co-created Halite. Brought it to Two Sigma.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Studies in Computer Science and Mathematics
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