SpaceXAI completes its Cursor acquisition following Grok Bot and Grok 4.6 release
When SpaceX isn’t landing rockets, it’s apparently landing AI company deals. In February, the firm behind Starlink absorbed xAI , which includes Twitter-turned-X. In April, SpaceX inked a deal with Cursor, a competitor to Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex. As of August 14, the purchase has been completed. SpaceXAI, as it’s now called, also recently released Grok Bot and Grok 4.6 models with the help…
SpaceX has completed its acquisition of Cursor, a competitor to AI coding tools Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. The partnership, announced in April, saw SpaceX pay Cursor $10 billion. Following the deal, SpaceXAI released its Grok Bot and Grok 4.6 models. Cursor, popular among software engineers for its AI-powered coding and knowledge work capabilities, has been working closely with SpaceX to accelerate its model training efforts.
With xAI's Colossus infrastructure, Cursor aims to push its training efforts further, resulting in more powerful models.
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