GoKawiilWhen 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.
Update 6/16/2026: SpaceX has acquired Cursor a week after becoming a publicly traded company.
We're excited to join forces with @SpaceX to advance the frontier of useful AI. Expect significant improvements to Cursor soon. https://t.co/62IMr2sgEy — Cursor (@cursor_ai) June 16, 2026
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SpaceX struck $10 billion deal with Cursor ahead of $60 billion acquisition
Cursor has been popular with software engineers who code with AI on the Mac. It was one of the first services to connect large language model artificial intelligence to the process of building apps.
In April, SpaceX and Cursor are “working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI,” the two companies say.
The collaboration originally included a $10 billion payment from SpaceX to Cursor:
SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI.
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