SpaceX and AI firm Cursor have struck a brand new partnership that might see the proprietor of X purchase the AI firm for $60 billion later this yr. “SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai at the moment are working carefully collectively to create the world’s greatest coding and information work AI,” SpaceX wrote in a put up on X.
Based on SpaceX, the deal permits for it to both make investments $10 billion into the corporate recognized for its AI coding instrument, or purchase it fully “later this yr” for $60 billion. If an acquisition have been to occur, it is not clear at what level Cursor may formally be part of the fold of Elon Musk’s quickly increasing and more and more enmeshed net of corporations. SpaceX purchased xAI, the billionaire’s AI firm that additionally controls X, earlier this yr. SpaceX is presently on the point of go public this summer time in what is going to possible be the most important preliminary public providing (IPO) in historical past.
Cursor, which has reportedly been in talks to boost its personal $2 billion spherical of funding, is understood for its AI coding instrument of the identical identify that is change into the vibe coding platform of selection for a lot of builders. It permits folks to make use of both its personal fashions or these from different main AI corporations, together with OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and xAI.
In a press release, Cursor mentioned its partnership with SpaceX will “speed up our mannequin coaching efforts” whereas addressing infrastructure-related points which have slowed it down prior to now. “We have needed to push our coaching efforts a lot additional, however we have been bottlenecked by compute,” the corporate mentioned. “With this partnership, our workforce will leverage xAI’s Colossus infrastructure to dramatically scale up the intelligence of our fashions for coding and past.”
