SpaceX (SPCX.O) said it will buy Anysphere, developer of the popular AI coding agent Cursor, for $60 billion, with the deal expected to close in Q3 2026. The acquisition expands SpaceX’s push into the enterprise AI market and may strengthen xAI — which merged into SpaceX in February and builds the Grok chatbot — in AI programming, an area where xAI has lagged. The deal will give Cursor greater access to SpaceX compute resources for model development; Cursor, like OpenAI and Anthropic, has drawn

2026-06-16

SpaceX (SPCX.O) said it will buy Anysphere, developer of the popular AI coding agent Cursor, for $60 billion, with the deal expected to close in Q3 2026. The acquisition expands SpaceX’s push into the enterprise AI market and may strengthen xAI — which merged into SpaceX in February and builds the Grok chatbot — in AI programming, an area where xAI has lagged. The deal will give Cursor greater access to SpaceX compute resources for model development; Cursor, like OpenAI and Anthropic, has drawn significant developer adoption for automated code generation.