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SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

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Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

#111
Nonsense like this reminds me of the following quote from the 1999 Thomas Crown Affair movie:

“Have you figured out what you're going to say to your board when they realize you paid me thirty million more than others were offering?”

In the span of <20 years we’re talking about a sale price 3 orders of magnitude larger than a minor plot point of a hollywood movie.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

#112

Does anyone here think Cursor is overvalued? It's just packaging up what already exists, it has no moat or IP.

its not just the models, their auto complete is actually really good. when you make a change it will give you "tab to next" which makes refactors super easy. composer 2.5 is also a very decent model, it go 90% of my AI tasks using it now.

Yes, that's why Cursor was very popular when actually reading model output paragraph by paragraph was still the way you used them. That's no longer the case, their use has cratered, and in fact they have been disintermediated by their model vendors, leaving an empty shell.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

#115

Does anyone here think Cursor is overvalued? It's just packaging up what already exists, it has no moat or IP.

its not just the models, their auto complete is actually really good. when you make a change it will give you "tab to next" which makes refactors super easy. composer 2.5 is also a very decent model, it go 90% of my AI tasks using it now.

So 60B dollars and your primary reason it’s worth that is “tab to next” autocomplete?

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

#117
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?

You clearly have not used Cursor lately. It’s substantially more than all that. It’s not a VSCode extension anymore.

Re: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

#119

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.

Surprising how tech people on a tech forum are some of the biggest Luddites. Maybe it’s because the creative destruction is coming to your industry this time?
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