SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 SpaceX says it has the rights to buy artificial intelligence coding tool Cursor for $60 billion later this year as Elon Musk’s space exploration and AI company looks for ways to compete with rivals Anthropic and OpenAI ahead of a planned Wall Street debut.<\/p>\n
SpaceX said that, alternatively, it could pay $10 billion to \u201cwork together\u201d with Cursor.<\/p>\n
SpaceX announced the deal Tuesday on the social platform X, which along with the AI chatbot Grok is part of a constellation of properties that Musk has merged into his rocket company.<\/p>\n
Cursor, made by San Francisco startup Anysphere, is a popular AI coding assistant. What SpaceX describes as Cursor’s wide \u201cdistribution to expert software engineers\u201d is likely part of what makes it attractive to Musk’s company, giving it access to a new customer base.<\/p>\n
Cursor said its new partnership with SpaceX subsidiary xAI will enable it to build future AI products using xAI’s massive AI data center complex Colossus, based in Memphis, Tennessee.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve wanted to push our training efforts much further, but we\u2019ve been bottlenecked by compute,\u201d Cursor said in a statement on X, which didn’t mention the possibility of being acquired. \u201cWith this partnership, our team will leverage xAI\u2019s Colossus infrastructure to dramatically scale up the intelligence of our models.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cursor, which started in 2022, helped sparked a trend called \u201cvibe coding\u201d as AI coding assistants have become increasingly capable of doing the work of computer programming.<\/p>\n
Cursor competes with other coding tools like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex but also has relied heavily on partnerships with those larger AI research companies for the foundations of its technology.<\/p>\n
It was Cursor\u2019s Composer, combined with Anthropic\u2019s Claude Sonnet, that a prominent AI researcher was playing with for weekend projects when he coined the phrase \u201cvibe coding” in early 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) \u2014 SpaceX says it has the rights to buy artificial intelligence coding tool Cursor for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2798,10002,140,1602,1603,10003,3583,3584,3585,969,10001,2899],"class_list":{"0":"post-12557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-xai","8":"tag-claude-code","9":"tag-claude-sonnet","10":"tag-elon-musk","11":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","12":"tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","13":"tag-product-30107-ap-tennessee-state-news-no-weather","14":"tag-product-30597-ap-business-news-f-wire","15":"tag-product-31995-ap-online-general-financial-business-news","16":"tag-product-32005-ap-online-high-tech-news","17":"tag-san-francisco","18":"tag-spacex-cursor-xai-grok-ai-coding","19":"tag-xai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}