SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of Cursor just closed — here's 3 ways they're already working together
SpaceX closed its $60 billion acquisition of the AI coding startup Cursor on Friday. The companies were already sharing compute and training data.
SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor officially closed on Friday. The two companies have been working together since April, when SpaceX granted itself the right to acquire Cursor. Musk only confirmed the acquisition in June. During SpaceX's August earnings call, he declined to provide details on the partnership. However, the two companies have already been collaborating.
Cursor played a role in training two new Grok models, Grok 4.5 and Grok 4.6. It utilized trillions of tokens of Cursor data for this purpose. This is Cursor's first model that wasn't solely for software engineering. SpaceX's Colossus supercomputer, powered by 200,000 Nvidia GPUs, significantly aided Cursor in scaling up its models' intelligence.
Cursor's paid subscribers also gained access to some of SpaceX's AI products. On Tuesday, SpaceX released its new AI agent, Grok Bot, which was available for SuperGrok Heavy users and Cursor Ultra subscribers. Additionally, recent Grok releases were included as first-party models in Cursor's system.
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