SpaceX and AI firm Cursor have struck a brand new partnership that would see the proprietor of X purchase the AI firm for $60 billion later this 12 months. “SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai at the moment are working carefully collectively to create the world’s finest coding and information work AI,” SpaceX wrote in a put up on X.
In keeping with SpaceX, the deal permits for it to both make investments $10 billion into the corporate recognized for its AI coding instrument, or purchase it totally “later this 12 months” for $60 billion. If an acquisition had been to occur, it isn’t clear at what level Cursor may formally be a part of the fold of Elon Musk’s quickly increasing and more and more enmeshed internet of firms. SpaceX purchased xAI, the billionaire’s AI firm that additionally controls X, earlier this 12 months. SpaceX is at the moment on the brink of go public this summer time in what is going to doubtless be the most important preliminary public providing (IPO) in historical past.
Cursor, which has reportedly been in talks to lift 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 firms, together with OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and xAI.
In an announcement, Cursor stated its partnership with SpaceX will “speed up our mannequin coaching efforts” whereas addressing infrastructure-related points which have slowed it down up to now. “We have wished to push our coaching efforts a lot additional, however we have been bottlenecked by compute,” the corporate stated. “With this partnership, our crew will leverage xAI’s Colossus infrastructure to dramatically scale up the intelligence of our fashions for coding and past.”
