SpaceX buys Cursor for 60 billion: the most popular AI programming assistant now has an owner

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    "title": "SpaceX buys Cursor for 60 billion: the most popular AI programming assistant now has an owner - gagadget.es",
    "excerpt": "SpaceX has completed the acquisition of Cursor, the artificial intelligence-based programming assistant developed by the company Anysphere, for a value of 60 billion dollars. The deal, announced in June 2026 and paid entirely in shares, makes Cursor part of the ecosystem of SpaceX and xAI, the AI company founded by Elon Musk that has been operating under the name SpaceXAI since July. For technical teams already using Cursor daily, the change of ownership is not a minor detail. Cursor had reached annualized revenues of approximately 2.6 billion dollars in June 2026, according to Reuters. However, its share of corporate spending fell from 41% in June 2025 to 26% in May 2026, according to Ramp data. The acquisition is more a defensive strategy - to curb the loss of ground against competitors - than a runaway growth. The four co-founders of the project, all with MIT backgrounds, are valued at around 2.7 billion dollars each after the deal closes, according to Forbes. Cursor will have access to SpaceX's GPU farm, which the company itself describes as the largest in the world. The stated goal is to develop and train new models that can be offered to customers at a lower price. SpaceXAI and Cursor have already jointly presented two models: Grok 4.5, oriented towards programming and agent AI, and Grok 4.6, also trained for web development and automated design. The immediate problem...",
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