This feels like another Twitter moment... unless he's absolutely desperate for engineers who can train LLMs. In that case it's basically an acquihire. Otherwise, this makes absolutely zero sense.
SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
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#34Bloomberg reporting its an agreement to either acquire for $60B later this year or pay $10B to work together https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/spacex-sa...
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#35What are we even doing here. I have no idea what this has to do with aerospace, but I know a bit about software and this does not look great. Cursor is obviously on a serious decline and has little to no moat in the area they are building in (IDE), which we kinda now know is maybe not even the right area (CLI). I feel like this is just a bad move?
> no idea what this has to do with aerospace SpaceX is no longer SpaceX per se , but SpaceX-xAI. My TL; DR (and this is mine, personally) is its mission has pivoted from colonising Mars to building a Dyson sphere. Space-based datacentres are a demand excuse for putting lots of solar panels in space. Going one level down, more Cursor use is a demand excuse for putting lots of datacentres anywhere.
Plot twist: Build the Dyson sphere around Earth and charge for sunlight…
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#37$50bn for a harness makes no sense, what am I missing?
My 2c: they need to pump xAI usage (which nobody is using) to be able to keep the hype alive pre-ipo.
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#3860 Billion for an IDE?
I guess back to Jetbrains it is.
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#39What's Cursor's moat here? I'm a bit surprised that xAI/SpaceX needs to buy them rather than building their own VScode forked IDE or an agentic UI/CLI.
It's data. Nobody is using Grok for SWE work, but they are using Cursor.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
NYTimes has updated the title "SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion"
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Thanks for the info! I removed the callout