SpaceX has completed a $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor,
effective Aug. 14, filings show, roughly two months after the companies
announced a deal. The purchase, one of the largest tech transactions on record,
is intended to accelerate the development of advanced AI tools to automate tasks
including software coding. The move is described as a key step in Musk’s effort
to catch up with rivals Anthropic and OpenAI. SpaceX’s AI arm has been renamed
SpaceXAI; it had limited commercial applications and recently underwent layoffs
and restructuring. Cursor launched its AI coding assistant in 2023 to help
developers write and debug code and was among the fastest-growing startups
during the surge in demand for chat-driven programming tools.