Cursor bets big on SpaceX to power its AI coding empire

MIT-trained coder Michael Truell leads Cursor as its AI coding platform rockets in growth, pivots from heavy reliance on Anthropic to building its own Composer models, and threads a potential $60 billion SpaceX deal into the business plan, while financing expensive AI compute; the company, now around 700 employees and serving about 60% of the Fortune 500, has pursued aggressive hiring and a demanding, unpaid work-trial culture to sift top engineers even as it forges a high-stakes partnership with SpaceX.