{"id":639048,"date":"2026-08-15T18:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/639048\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T18:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:23:12","slug":"spacex-officially-closes-its-cursor-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/639048\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX, according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cursor.com\/blog\/joining-spacex\" target=\"_blank\">an announcement on the Cursor blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX \u2014 which also acquired Musk\u2019s xAI earlier this year \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/04\/21\/spacex-is-working-with-cursor-and-has-an-option-to-buy-the-startup-for-60-billion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced a deal in April<\/a> for the companies to develop technology together; the deal also gave SpaceX the option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion. Two months later, as SpaceX became a public company, the companies said they were <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/16\/spacex-to-acquire-cursor-for-60b-in-stock-days-after-blockbuster-ipo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">moving forward with the acquisition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In its announcement that the deal has closed, Cursor repeatedly referenced SpaceX\u2019s computing infrastructure, which the company has been <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/08\/04\/spacex-doubles-revenues-on-anthropic-and-google-compute-deals-starlink-growth\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">renting out to customers including Anthropic and Google<\/a>. (SpaceX also <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/18\/xai-is-facing-a-lawsuit-for-operating-over-400-mw-of-gas-turbines-without-permits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">faces a lawsuit over the pollution created by its data center gas turbines<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cursor said that by becoming part of SpaceX, it will have \u201caccess to the largest fleet of GPUs in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSpaceX is building the computing capacity needed to scale intelligence far beyond what exists today,\u201d the company added. \u201cCursor will be one place where that intelligence becomes useful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX, according to an announcement on the Cursor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[270],"tags":[93662,18,1647,19,17,133,451,2731],"class_list":["post-639048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-cursor","tag-eire","tag-elon-musk","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117100924509665605","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}