Cursor is now a part of SpaceX

spottedmarley

...to the moon?

thecrumb

Eeeewww. Grok. Off to look at Zed.

imagent

Keep in mind while this is the date they officially became part of SpaceX, they have already been collaborating on building models together. So don't expect a significant bump in performance on new Grok models due to the additional data from Cursor--that bump already happened with Grok 4.5[1] and now 4.6. [1] https://cursor.com/blog/grok-4-5

sidcool

They were not joking

midnitewarrior

...and I won't be revisiting Cursor again.

kykat

I swear I actually laughed out loud with this, is this a joke?

cedws

Isn't it SpaceXAI now? I lost track.

ravenstine

I get it and yet I don't. On one hand, my experience with Cursor (albeit limited) tells me that it's a perfect fit with Elon's other ventures. Then again, I don't see how there's anything so special about it that SpaceXAI would want to acquire it for either the software itself or the talent behind it. It seems more likely that acquiring Cursor is a way to get more users for Grok, seeing as how it still has a very small share of the market.

q3qahg

Elon is still all in on replacing programmers. He listens to always the same stupid booster accounts (XFreeze etc.). Good that there is now an administration that creates jobs, does not engage in foreign wars and has ended the Ukraine war in 24 hours.

ChrisArchitect

Previously in June: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553224

AnEro

Subscription is gone the second I feel like their not running the inference at a loss

andsoitis

Congrats to everyone at Cursor!

porphyra

Hopefully they can unify the harnesses now. Weird how there's both grok build and cursor-agent at the same time.

deburo

I'm hoping Cursor becomes the third biggest (American) AI model company, replacing Google. Elon works best with top talent, and I think Cursor most kept its team together; were there any big departure from there recently?

GMoromisato

I'm skeptical of this deal. Cursor led the way on agentic coding, but Claude Code and Codex have replaced it. [I use Codex for everything now.] Still, I'm hearing that Grok 4.6 is almost as good at coding as Codex, but lots cheaper. [My network is also down on Claude--Opus 5 seems like a regression.] The optimistic scenario would be Grok being a fast-follower with cheaper rates, and staying ahead of open source models. If they can pull that off, and convince enough developers, then maybe they've got a chance. But $60B seems insane to me. What's Cursor's market share relative to Codex and Claude Code? If it's not meaningful, then it's $60B for an acquihire.

vegancap

Cooool, won't be using that again

hardwaregeek

I feel like people aren’t updating to the possibility that a significant portion of software development could be under the purview of SpaceX. Whether it’s developer Twitter, Cursor’s planned GitHub competitor, or Cursor/Grok, that’s a lot of the developer mindshare. Granted, there’s a lot of competition in all of these spaces except for maybe Twitter, so it might not happen. But there’s a chance! And that possibility is fairly concerning.

james_pm

Will they rebrand as codeX or Xcode? Trouble either way.

stldev

Is this solely to prop up SPCX? Besides its following, does Cursor have any sort of moat? It's VS Code with a harness right?