SpaceX closes its $60B acquisition of Cursor, two months after SpaceX formally announced it had agreed to acquire the startup (Bloomberg)

SpaceX has completed its acquisition of artificial intelligence coding startup Cursor. The deal, worth $60 billion, was announced two months ago. Cursor is a competitor to Anthropic PBC and OpenAI, and its technology will be used to help SpaceX gain ground on its rivals.

According to 9to5Mac, SpaceX and Cursor had been working together closely before the acquisition. The two companies had announced plans to create the "world's best coding and knowledge work AI." Cursor's technology allows software engineers to code with AI, and it was one of the first services to connect large language model artificial intelligence to the process of building apps.

The acquisition comes as part of Elon Musk's bid to expand SpaceX's presence in the AI sector. SpaceX has also absorbed xAI, which includes Twitter-turned-X, and released Grok Bot and Grok 4.6 models with the help of Cursor, as reported by 9to5Mac.

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