SpaceX Bets Big on Cursor to Power Its AI Coding Push

SpaceX agreed to acquire Cursor for up to $60 billion, or pay $10 billion for Cursor’s work if not acquired, linking SpaceX’s Colossus supercomputer to Cursor’s AI coding editor. Cursor, founded by MIT graduates, has drawn top backers like Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, and Nvidia, and counts Stripe, Coinbase, Discord, Salesforce, Neuralink, and Nvidia among its customers, while facing competition from Claude Code and other coding AIs. The deal signals a bold push to scale AI-powered coding using SpaceX and xAI infrastructure, including Cursor’s newer Cursor 3 product, amid broader market rivalry and strategic moves by SpaceX.