but What exactly is SpaceX doing in the AI Space (Pun Intended) and Why?
these are weird times...
SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
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Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#182Wow, we are seeing the dark underbelly of the beast here. Nobody talks about cursor anymore for a reason. Look, I'm not saying it's not useful and discounting anyone getting value out of it... But it's clearly not worth 60B dollars in April 2026.
A crazy and lucky bailout for Cursor + investors.
Forget bailout, this is a massive payday for them
Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#183Lots of people in the comments talking about how this is about training data, but surely this is actually about hiring competent people after the mass exodus/firing at xAI?
That's quite a pricey acquihire
Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#184knee-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…
You've literally got tools like opencode that are MIT licensed. Most of those points X could do on their own or are things that make this attractive for cursor not X. e.g. Need developer data? Use some of that spare GPU compute, hand out free top end model coding access for a bit and you'll very rapidly have developer data >decent enterprise relationships I guess. 60B worth of "relationships" though?
> hand out free top end model coding access for a bit and you'll very rapidly have developer data
They tried this - grok was free on openrouter for a while
Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#185knee-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…
You forgot to consider whether all this is worth $60B.
it's not dollars it's X bucks
Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#186Every time Musk does anything these days, it further reveals the shell game he's playing with his companies. This is going to be an Enron type of story eventually. I truly wish I had a choice to pull my tax money out of this particular subsidy.
Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#187RIP Cursor.
Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#188Why would Elon do this if he knows full well the names X-Code and Codex are already taken?
Laughed very hard at this. Well done.
Feel like you must have made this observation a while ago and just waited for your moment.