SpaceX has exercised the option to acquire @cursor_ai in an all-stock transaction with the goal of building the world’s most useful AI models.
For the past few months, SpaceXAI has been jointly training a model with Cursor, which will be released in Cursor and Grok Build soon.
We look forward to working closely with the Cursor team to advance our frontier AI capabilities
BREAKING: SpaceX has agreed to acquire Cursor, the world's fastest growing software startup, for $60 billion in an all stock deal.
Cursor has over 1 million paying customers, more than $2 billion in annualized revenue, and is projected to hit $6 billion by end of 2026.
At $60 billion, this is the largest software acquisition in history, paying 20 to 30 times Cursor's current revenue.
The deal is subject to regulatory approval and expected to close in Q3 2026.
SpaceX now owns the rockets, the satellites, the AI models, the chips, and is about to own the tool every developer on earth uses to write code.
Sam Altman on the auto assistant researcher in September:
"I think that’s a research problem for the AIs to figure out. I think we’re at a point where... with the current pipeline, the current architectures, I think we’re going to get over the line of when AIs can do incredible [things]."
"By September of this year, we will use 500,000 A100-equivalent GPUs... as an AI research intern, and by March of 2028, we will have a full end-to-end, very talented researcher."
If you’ve been following me I’ve been talking about this since November of last year, deeply excited for the auto assistant researcher and should land right in time for GPT 6
ELON MUSK:
“We’re going to have universal high income.
We’ll basically just issue money to people."
"AI and robots are going to make so much stuff and provide so many services that they’ll run out of things to do for humans."
"Money will stop being relevant at some point in the future."
"AI won’t use human currency. It will care about power and mass: wattage and tonnage.”
ME:
“So just as you’re becoming a multi-trillionaire, money starts to have less value?”
ELON:
“Yeah, pretty much.”
GPT-5.4 helped drive a medicinal chemistry project from literature review to a validated experimental result.
Paired with https://t.co/gcDaph8b2B’s Maria AI and specialized lab, the model proposed an unexpected way to improve a widely used reaction in drug discovery.