- SpaceX has exercised its option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion
- The acquisition is expected to close in the third quarter of 2026
- The 2026 Air and Space Summit will explore AI, commercial space relay and more
SpaceX has agreed to acquire Cursor’s parent company, Anysphere, in an all-stock transaction valued at $60 billion as part of a push to expand its frontier artificial intelligence capabilities, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
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What Are the Details of the SpaceX-Cursor Deal?
According to WSJ, Cursor will get $60 billion worth of SpaceX stock under the deal. The transaction is expected to conclude in the third quarter of 2026.
The transaction stems from a compute and option agreement the companies signed in April, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Under the arrangement, SpaceX agreed to provide Cursor with GPU cluster compute capacity and collaborate on AI model development and related products.
SpaceX disclosed at the time that it had secured the right to buy Cursor at a predetermined valuation. The company announced Tuesday that it has exercised that option.
In a post on X on Tuesday, SpaceX said it has been jointly training an AI model with Cursor that will be released in Cursor and Grok Build.
What Is Cursor?
Cursor is an AI coding platform and software company. The San Francisco-based startup provides software tools that help developers write, edit and debug code using artificial intelligence.
Founded in 2023, Cursor competes with AI coding products such as OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code.
What Did Cursor Executives Say About the Deal?
Cursor CEO Michael Truell said the transaction with SpaceX would help advance the company’s frontier AI capabilities “with the goal of building the world’s most useful AI models.”
In a LinkedIn post published Tuesday, Brian McCarthy, president of global revenue and field operations at Cursor, said the potential combination would bring together Cursor’s AI software expertise and SpaceX’s compute, connectivity and space technologies. He added that the companies could create new products for customers and partners while building what he described as a “generational company.”
How Does Cursor Support SpaceX’s AI Strategy?
In April, SpaceX said it had secured the right to acquire Cursor and was working with the latter on AI and coding initiatives.
According to the company, the collaboration combines Cursor’s software engineering platform with SpaceX’s AI compute infrastructure, including the Colossus training supercomputer operated through its xAI business.
SpaceX has also outlined broader AI expansion plans involving space-based infrastructure. The company has asked regulators for permission to deploy up to 1 million AI satellites, creating solar-powered orbital data centers capable of performing computing workloads.
How Does the Deal Align With SpaceX’s IPO?
The acquisition announcement comes days after SpaceX completed its initial public offering. The space and AI company began trading on Friday on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “SPCX” weeks after announcing its plans to go public by filing a registration statement with SEC.
Following the IPO, SpaceX shares climbed sharply, pushing the company’s market value to nearly $3 trillion, according to WSJ.
