SpaceX and AI firm Cursor have struck a brand new partnership that might see the proprietor of X purchase the AI firm for $60 billion later this yr. “SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai at the moment are working intently collectively to create the world’s finest coding and information work AI,” SpaceX wrote in a post on X.
In response to SpaceX, the deal permits for it to both make investments $10 billion into the corporate recognized for its AI coding instrument, or purchase it completely “later this yr” for $60 billion. If an acquisition have been to occur, it is not clear at what level Cursor may formally be a part of the fold of Elon Musk’s quickly increasing and more and more enmeshed net of corporations. SpaceX purchased xAI, the billionaire’s AI firm that also controls X, earlier this year. SpaceX is at present on the brink of go public this summer season in what is going to probably be the biggest preliminary public providing (IPO) in historical past.
Cursor, which has reportedly been in talks to boost its personal $2 billion spherical of funding, is understood for its AI coding instrument of the identical identify that is turn into the vibe coding platform of alternative for a lot of builders. It permits individuals to make use of both its personal fashions or these from different main AI corporations, together with OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and xAI.
In a statement, Cursor mentioned its partnership with SpaceX will “speed up our mannequin coaching efforts” whereas addressing infrastructure-related points which have slowed it down prior to now. “We have needed to push our coaching efforts a lot additional, however we have been bottlenecked by compute,” the corporate mentioned. “With this partnership, our workforce will leverage xAI’s Colossus infrastructure to dramatically scale up the intelligence of our fashions for coding and past.”
