SpaceX has acquired the right to buy coding startup Cursor for $60 billion later this year, according to a post on X.
If the deal doesn’t go through, SpaceX will pay Cursor $10 billion for the work they have done together. Cursor built a popular developer tool for coding.
Elon Musk’s space company said the collaboration will combine Cursor’s software — widely used by engineers for AI-assisted coding — with its “Colossus” supercomputer, which it claims will deliver the equivalent of one million Nvidia H100 chips for model training.
The move underscores intensifying competition to control both AI infrastructure and applications. While companies like OpenAI and Anthropic focus on general-purpose models, the SpaceX–Cursor tie-up targets a lucrative niche: software development and knowledge work automation.
Cursor has gained traction among developers as AI coding assistants reshape programming workflows, a market also contested by tools from Anthropic.