{"id":11577,"date":"2026-04-22T03:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/11577\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T03:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:12:07","slug":"spacex-obtains-option-to-buy-cursor-for-60-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/11577\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Obtains Option to Buy Cursor for $60 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an X post on Tuesday, SpaceX referred to a clumsily named entity called \u201cSpaceXAI\u201d\u2014a term Musk has used before<\/a>\u2014but that\u2019s not even the big news. The big news is that SpaceX, assuming that\u2019s still what the rocket company that also owns xAI and X the social media app wants to be called, now has the option to buy the AI company Cursor for a rather breathtaking $60 billion.<\/p>\n

SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai<\/a> are now working closely together to create the world\u2019s best coding and knowledge work AI.<\/p>\n

The combination of Cursor\u2019s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX\u2019s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Apparently SpaceX has tapped cursor to help it build AI for \u201ccoding and knowledge work\u201d\u2014in other words AI designed to code and do computer-based drudgery. This follows OpenAI\u2019s pivot to enterprise<\/a> last month, which in turn came after the rise of frenetic AI productivity mania brought on by the release of OpenClaw<\/a>, which in turn was helped along by Anthropic\u2019s Claude Code, which launched in 2025.<\/p>\n

But before there was Claude Code there was Cursor, one of the original vibe coding apps, which launched in 2023. Last year, when Cursor\u2019s parent, Anysphere, raised a $105 million funding round, it was valued at $2.5 billion<\/a>. By my math, SpaceX apparently thinks the Cursor product alone may be worth 24 times that amount.<\/p>\n

The joint project earns Cursor either $10 billion, or if SpaceX is feeling acquisitive, it could just be bought for the full $60 billion at some point \u201clater this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

60 is a lot of billions of dollars. For reference, while the SpaceX IPO has a targeted listing valuation of $1.75 trillion, SpaceX hopes to raise $75 billion from investors<\/a>. In a sense, SpaceX would be spending 80 percent of that before the IPO is even done if it opts to buy Cursor.<\/p>\n