SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

boznz

Looking forward to seeing where this goes, both companies have a reputation for engineering excellence.

babelfish

Good on them to get $10B breakup terms, after the Twitter shitshow

AirMax98

https://archive.is/gbdJ8

argsnd

$50bn for a harness makes no sense, what am I missing?

atlbeer

Is this Cursor the product? Or AnySphere the company?

dantihanyi

Bloomberg reporting its an agreement to either acquire for $60B later this year or pay $10B to work together https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/spacex-sa...

AirMax98

What are we even doing here. I have no idea what this has to do with aerospace, but I know a bit about software and this does not look great. Cursor is obviously on a serious decline and has little to no moat in the area they are building in (IDE), which we kinda now know is maybe not even the right area (CLI). I feel like this is just a bad move?

cj

Rockets, satellites, social media, AI - the only thing missing from the SpaceX hype portfolio is a certain coworking company. That would really set them up for an exciting IPO.

break_the_bank

really happy for the Cursor team but at the same time disappointed that the biggest non-lab AI company couldn't exist on their own. shows how intense the power laws are around ai and how much of a capital game it is.

cdrnsf

That's an expensive VS Code fork.

zzleeper

I'm sworn off from Musk-related products, and this will prob make cursor worse (switch to X's LLM for instance). So, any suggestions for switching? Codex; Claude Code? (I like my IDE and I like the freedom to choose a model, which is why I stuck with Cursor even when it felt more expensive)

lemonish97

What's Cursor's moat here? I'm a bit surprised that xAI/SpaceX needs to buy them rather than building their own VScode forked IDE or an agentic UI/CLI.

arlattimore

SpaceX, xAI, Collosus data centers, next space compute, X, Starlink and soon Cursor to join 2, 3 & 4 together?

alyxya

This is the right partnership to happen. SpaceX has all the compute but is missing the talent for training LLMs, especially on the RL side. Cursor has the talent and RL stack, but doesn't have their own pretrained base model or own their compute. Both will be on a bad trajectory without cooperating because Claude Code and Codex have gained so much momentum already.

woeirua

This feels like another Twitter moment... unless he's absolutely desperate for engineers who can train LLMs. In that case it's basically an acquihire. Otherwise, this makes absolutely zero sense.

seatac76

60 Billion for an IDE? I guess back to Jetbrains it is.

kelsey98765431

Time to download windsurf

bmitc

Government subsidized purchase of a private company. Fantastic. All funded by the taxpayer to send rockets to a dead planet and to burn up all the energy on our alive but suffering planet.

don_neufeld

If Twitter was when Musk jumped the shark this is definitely him sticking the landing.

5129ah

See also: https://www.reuters.com/technology/spacex-says-it-has-option... Personally, I have been granted the option to buy Tesla for $30 trillion by the end of this year or pay $500 billion for a partnership. It'll all happen, I swear.