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Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by anthonypasq » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 3:37 PM UTC

tomaytotomato wrote: post #821

roygbiv2 wrote: post #709

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Because cursor gives you access to tons of different models, not just the Claude models.

This is outdated, Claude code can be run against any model you want, you just simply need to update the ENV vars. Or if you have Ollama running locally you can do something like this: ollama launch claude --model glm-5:cloud Or if you feel brave and want to turn your laptop into BBQ ollama launch claude --model minimax:2.5

or you could just use cursor and select between everything at will every request and not have to manage 15 subscriptions

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by deinonychus » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 3:40 PM UTC

AlecSchueler wrote: post #608

fy20 wrote: post #496

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They changed that recently, you need to be paying €10/mo for that now. The free plan and/or access for the basic Twitter plan are gone.

What difference does that make?

it's much funnier now, that by putting it behind a paywall, they're explicitly saying "it's okay for you to do this, you just have to purchase a license first"

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by mrweasel » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 3:42 PM UTC

xnx wrote: post #763

s08148692 wrote: post #737

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the IDE has little value What they want is the massive user base, the data (Cursor has a lot of high quality coding data for training), the teams expertise in coding models and agents, and the Composer models 60 billion is a large number but these frontier labs are burning billions a month in compute alone, and SpaceX is IPOing soon so they'll have a lot of cash to spend

How massive is the Cursor user base?

The numbers I could find says 1 million, with about 35% paying.

I'd say that a million users is pretty good, but 350.000 paying users isn't, if you're a $60B company. Someone else mentioned that Anysphere has a $1B ARR, but I seriously doubt that each user is forking over ~$3000 per year.

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by rich_sasha » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 3:42 PM UTC

dymk wrote: post #896

deanc wrote: post #560

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Have to call out that comment about grok code being sub par. I used it exclusively when it was free in Cursor and have nothing bad to say about it. And that was months ago. I imagine it’s a lot better now.

I have a lot bad to say about it. It was ass compared to OAI/Anthropic models. It was incredibly fast though, but that just meant it was writing buggy code at breakneck speed

> writing buggy code at breakneck speed

Vibe coding in a nutshell

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by tverbeure » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 3:44 PM UTC

stainablesteel wrote: post #796

tverbeure wrote: post #396

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This can’t a serious comment. Did you notice the size of the Artemis rocket and the size of the payload it sends to the moon and back? Do you expect there to be diamonds just laying these on the moon surface, no mining required.

you don't have to ship things the moon, you just build a mass driver on the moon that sends things to earth. it doesn't need to yield diamonds, this would be lucrative with just fresh water

“Just” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by pixxel » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 3:52 PM UTC

silisili wrote: post #140

nikcub wrote: post #94

knee-jerk is that it's weird, but makes sense: * X will have a total of ~2GW of GPU sometime this year largely not doing much outside of 'grok is this true' * despite no longer being in vogue with consumer devs Cursor still has a lot of developer data that can assist in building a model * Cursor have decent enterprise relationships (while for xAI it is ~zero) and that's where the real revenue for llms + agents is * C…

> largely not doing much outside of 'grok is this true' Hey now, don't forget about it's super important other use, taking innocent photos of people and regenerating them in less clothing and compromising positions. I'm sad that I even know that.

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Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by khasan222 » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 3:57 PM UTC

ozim wrote: post #610

rob74 wrote: post #583

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What's crazy is that a company that sells an IDE (that's not even a particularly good one compared to competitors like JetBrains) integrating some AI plugins could be worth more than $60B...

In terms of IDE yeah it is not that great. I do have Copilot in VSCode and Cursor. I thought both should be equal in solving problems - turns out Cursor with the same model selected somehow was able to solve tasks that Copilot would get stuck or run in loops. They have some tricks on managing file access that others don’t.

I actually now think ai prompt writing in the IDE is completely overkill nowadays.

IDEs are made for just a human to interact with code. I think the paradigm of forcing these tools that weren’t built for this to do this, is us trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.

Call me old, but don’t put ai in my ide. My ide was made for a human, not an ai. For the established players for sure it makes sense since they already have space on our machines. But for the new ones imo terminal, or dedicated llm interfaces are where it’s at.

If I’m writing code sure suggest the next line. If the machine is writing code, let it, and just supervise properly. and have the proper interface that allows the strength of each

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by jorl17 » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 4:07 PM UTC

yungbeto wrote: post #109

Why would Elon do this if he knows full well the names X-Code and Codex are already taken?

Nah, it's going to be XCursion.

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by avidruntime » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 4:20 PM UTC

gadders wrote: post #902

tpurves wrote: post #531

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Yep this was the moment to finally remember to cancel my cursor subscription. I find it unconscionable to do business with someone who would do business with Elon.

You don't use any companies with a Twitter/X account? That must be tricky.

Voluntarily choosing to not spend money in X related orgs ≠ using services that use X related orgs. As a consumer, our options to vote with our dollar is limited, but that doesn't make it pointless. Real life is not binary and the sentiment that one cannot criticize a system which they partake in is a thought terminating cliche. One only needs to ask "for who does this reflexive thought terminating cliche benefit the most" to find the lede.

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by DeathArrow » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 4:30 PM UTC

s08148692 wrote: post #737

rob74 wrote: post #583

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's crazy is that a company that sells an IDE (that's not even a particularly good one compared to competitors like JetBrains) integrating some AI plugins could be worth more than $60B...

the IDE has little value What they want is the massive user base, the data (Cursor has a lot of high quality coding data for training), the teams expertise in coding models and agents, and the Composer models 60 billion is a large number but these frontier labs are burning billions a month in compute alone, and SpaceX is IPOing soon so they'll have a lot of cash to spend

>and the Composer models

You mean Kimi K2.5? They can get that for free.