SpaceX Cursor Acquisition Officially Closes in a $60 Billion Deal
Quick Reads
- SpaceX has officially closed its $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor.
- Cursor confirmed the news in a blog post, calling itself part of SpaceX now.
- The two firms first struck a partnership deal back in April 2026.
- Cursor gains access to SpaceX’s massive GPU fleet, already rented out to Anthropic and Google.
- The deal deepens Musk’s push to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic on coding tools.
SpaceX Cursor acquisition officially closed this week, according to a statement on the Cursor blog. Cursor confirmed it is now fully part of Elon Musk’s aerospace and AI empire. The companies first struck a partnership deal in April. That agreement gave SpaceX an option to acquire Cursor later for $60 billion in stock.
Two months after that, as SpaceX went public, both sides confirmed they were moving forward with the purchase. TechCrunch reported the closing on Saturday, noting Cursor repeatedly highlighted SpaceX’s computing power in its statement. Cursor said the tie-up gives it “access to the largest fleet of GPUs in the world.” That infrastructure already generates revenue for SpaceX through rental deals with rivals like Anthropic and Google.
Meanwhile, the acquisition extends a pattern at SpaceX, which absorbed Musk’s AI venture xAI earlier this year. Analysts see the Cursor deal as a direct bid to challenge OpenAI and Anthropic in developer tools. However, SpaceX still faces a separate lawsuit tied to pollution from its data center turbines. For now, the focus stays on integration, as Cursor moves fully under the SpaceX umbrella.
