SpaceX to Acquire AI Coding Platform Cursor for $60 Billion SpaceX is moving aggressively to turn its newly public stock-market power into an AI foothold, striking a $60 billion all‑stock deal for coding platform Cursor just days after its blockbuster IPO.

Early signals and April option deal

Cursor, founded in 2022 as Anysphere, quickly became a leading AI‑integrated coding environment but was increasingly constrained by access to computing power and competition from bigger labs. As SpaceX rebuilt Elon Musk’s AI venture xAI “from the foundations up,” the two sides began collaborating, with Cursor renting xAI data‑center capacity and the companies co‑training models like Grok Build.

In April, SpaceX structured a risky‑looking option: it would either buy Cursor for $60 billion in stock or pay a $10 billion breakup fee if the deal collapsed, signaling how central the startup was to its AI strategy.

IPO windfall and record‑setting acquisition

SpaceX went public in mid‑June with a valuation around $1.7 trillion, raising nearly $86 billion while floating only about 4% of its shares. Within days, its stock surged roughly 20% on its first full trading day and again after news leaked that it would acquire Cursor, briefly lifting SpaceX’s value to about $2.9 trillion and past Amazon’s market capitalization.

On June 16, multiple outlets confirmed SpaceX had “agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor in a $60 billion stock deal,” just days after the IPO. The transaction, to be paid entirely in SpaceX shares, is expected to close in the third quarter of 2026 and is described as “the largest acquisition ever of a VC‑backed startup.”

Competing views on value and risk

Supporters argue the purchase gives xAI, now folded into SpaceX, a credible coding product and enterprise AI revenue, tapping what SpaceX pitched as a multi‑trillion‑dollar AI market. Cursor already counts major firms like Stripe, Adobe and Nvidia as customers and has amassed roughly $2.6 billion in annualised B2B revenue.

Skeptics note that SpaceX’s AI division has been dogged by safety controversies and that Cursor, despite rapid growth and large funding rounds, was reportedly struggling to break even and bottlenecked on compute. They see the $60 billion price tag—far above Cursor’s last private valuations—as a high‑risk bet priced in inflated post‑IPO stock.

Still, investors so far appear unfazed: SpaceX has “added roughly $1 trillion” in market value since going public, largely on faith that its combined rockets, satellites and AI assets can support an enterprise AI business “worth trillions of dollars.”

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