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Cursor is now a part of SpaceX

Cursor is now a part of SpaceX

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SpaceX has completed its acquisition of coding assistant Cursor, granting the AI developer access to a massive proprietary GPU fleet for future model training.
What: The deal, initiated in April, pairs Cursor's developer-focused tool with SpaceX's compute infrastructure. The team announced Grok 4.6 as the first product of this combined effort.
Why it matters: This signals a trend where AI tooling startups with high compute demands are being absorbed into capital-rich hardware environments to secure the infrastructure necessary for competitive model training.
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Cursor has officially been acquired by SpaceX. This completes the acquisition process that started in April, when we announced our partnership with SpaceXAI to accelerate our model training efforts.

In the years since we started Cursor, better models have steadily expanded what people can build. Cursor has gone from completing the next few lines of code to building AI teammates that you can give real work to.

Together with SpaceX, we will push that ambition further. We will have access to the largest fleet of GPUs in the world, giving us the compute to build stronger models that are also more economical to run.

This means we can provide customers with more capable models at lower cost. Grok 4.6, which we released Wednesday, provides an early look at what we can now build together. SpaceX is building the computing capacity needed to scale intelligence far beyond what exists today. Cursor will be one place where that intelligence becomes useful.

For us, that opens a much larger horizon than the one we started with, while keeping the work familiar. We still want to help people with ambitious ideas spend less time writing code and more time solving harder problems.

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