SpaceX agrees to buy Cursor maker Anysphere for $60 billion

The stock deal gives Elon Musk's public-market SpaceX a fast-growing AI coding business as xAI chases Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft.

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Primary source: The Guardian

Why it matters

Cursor's planned $60 billion sale compresses the AI developer-tools cycle into four years and gives SpaceX a product foothold in enterprise AI, not just compute supply.

Illustration of a SpaceX rocket handing a glowing Cursor icon to Anysphere's logo, symbolizing SpaceX's acquisition of the Cursor maker.

SpaceX (@SpaceX), the newly public company founded and run by Elon Musk (@elonmusk), has agreed to acquire Anysphere, the San Francisco company behind the AI coding product Cursor, in a stock deal valuing Cursor at $60 billion, according to a Tuesday regulatory filing and a report from The Guardian.…

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