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SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by pietz »

yanis_t wrote: post #42

$60b is crazy. Cursor is an extension for VS Code, a harness and a bunch of prompts. They have their own model (Composer 2) which is based Kimi K2.5, but I don't think SpaceX would be interested in it. If they need a harness for grok, they could fork PI. What are they after for here? Customer base? Talent?

It's a crazy number especially since Cursor feels kinda dead. Few thoughts from the other side:

- xAI needs the coding related data to compete with Claude Code and Codex

- Recent progress with Composer 2.5 seems promising given the size

- The may get a comeback on the smaller than Enterprise battle field now that the other two got so expensive

- The way that Elon set up this entire process was quite genius. They locked in this option before, and now after the gains through the IPO, it feels almost like a discount, lol

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by jofzar »

Klathmon wrote: post #40
PUSH_AX wrote: post #7

In related news, I'm open to suggestions for coding agent harnesses.

I've been pretty damn happy with codex and vscode. Between the codex app, cli, and vscode extension there are options for most ways of working

Been very impressed by the codex app tbh

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by Hendrikto »

TrackerFF wrote: post #24

Congrats to the founders, arguably the first true AI-wrapper billionaires? 0 to multigenerational wealth in 4 years is impressive. It is crazy how much more wealth per user that can be created in the AI-space, compared to other products.

It is crazy how much more wealth per user that can be created in the tulip space, compared to other products.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by ArtificlObstcl »

yanis_t wrote: post #42

$60b is crazy. Cursor is an extension for VS Code, a harness and a bunch of prompts. They have their own model (Composer 2) which is based Kimi K2.5, but I don't think SpaceX would be interested in it. If they need a harness for grok, they could fork PI. What are they after for here? Customer base? Talent?

Usage data.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by rchaud »

HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #54
roxolotl wrote: post #6

Wow they are using 80% of what they raised 4 days ago to buy an IDE. Absolutely incredible.

It's $60B in SPCX stock, not in cash. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/spacex-to-acquire-cursor-f...

Guess Musk figured out that paying all cash to acquire something was a bad idea.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Post by senordevnyc »

aenis wrote: post #13

Out of curiosity, anyone here still using cursor?

Yes, it’s my daily driver for building the saas I run full-time. I’m not happy about this news.

I like the ability to switch between any models, Composer 2.5 is really solid, I like having my agents coworking in the IDE with me, the plan mode is great, Cloud Agents are great, especially with slack, linear, web, etc integrations. I routinely tag an error report in slack and Cursor fires up a Composer 2.5 cloud agent that has readonly db access, access to error reporting, etc, and it can triage the issue, issue a PR, and tag me in slack.

The only thing I’ve felt like I’m missing out on is the subsidies of the CC/Codex subscriptions, but it seems like that is rapidly eroding anyway.

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