In an X put up on Tuesday, SpaceX referred to a clumsily named entity known as “SpaceXAI”—a time period Musk has used before—however that’s not even the large information. The large information is that SpaceX, assuming that’s nonetheless what the rocket firm that additionally owns xAI and X the social media app desires to be known as, now has the choice to purchase the AI firm Cursor for a relatively breathtaking $60 billion.
SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are actually working carefully collectively to create the world’s greatest coding and information work AI.
The mixture of Cursor’s main product and distribution to skilled software program engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equal Colossus coaching supercomputer will…
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 21, 2026
Apparently SpaceX has tapped cursor to assist it construct AI for “coding and information work”—in different phrases AI designed to code and do computer-based drudgery. This follows OpenAI’s pivot to enterprise final month, which in flip got here after the rise of frenetic AI productiveness mania introduced on by the discharge of OpenClaw, which in flip was helped alongside by Anthropic’s Claude Code, which launched in 2025.
However earlier than there was Claude Code there was Cursor, one of many authentic vibe coding apps, which launched in 2023. Final yr, when Cursor’s father or mother, Anysphere, raised a $105 million funding spherical, it was valued at $2.5 billion. By my math, SpaceX apparently thinks the Cursor product alone could also be value 24 instances that quantity.
The joint undertaking earns Cursor both $10 billion, or if SpaceX is feeling acquisitive, it may simply be purchased for the total $60 billion sooner or later “later this yr.”
60 is loads of billions of {dollars}. For reference, whereas the SpaceX IPO has a focused itemizing valuation of $1.75 trillion, SpaceX hopes to raise $75 billion from investors. In a way, SpaceX can be spending 80 % of that earlier than the IPO is even carried out if it opts to purchase Cursor.
