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SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition
SpaceX has completed its acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor, giving the company access to SpaceX's computing infrastructure, which it already rents to customers like Anthropic and Google.
AI coding startup Cursor is now officially part of SpaceX, according to an announcement on Cursor’s blog. Elon Musk’s SpaceX — which also acquired Musk’s xAI earlier this year — first announced a deal in April for the two companies to develop technology together, with SpaceX holding an option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion. Two months later, as SpaceX itself became a public company, the two sides said they were moving forward with the acquisition.
In its announcement that the deal has closed, Cursor repeatedly pointed to SpaceX’s computing infrastructure, which SpaceX has been renting out to customers including Anthropic and Google. (SpaceX also faces a lawsuit over pollution created by its data center gas turbines.) Cursor said becoming part of SpaceX gives it access to the largest fleet of GPUs in the world. “SpaceX is building the computing capacity needed to scale intelligence far beyond what exists today,” the company added. “Cursor will be one place where that intelligence becomes useful.”
Why it matters
The deal cements SpaceX’s ambitions well beyond rockets and satellites — positioning it as a computing-infrastructure provider for the AI industry, with Cursor as its first in-house proof point.