# SpaceX acquires AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in all-stock deal

> In one of the more surprising deals of the year, SpaceX has confirmed it is acquiring Anysphere, the company behind the AI coding tool Cursor, in an all-stock transaction worth $60 billion. The move came just a week after SpaceX's own blockbuster public debut. Cursor is a genuine prize, not a vanity buy. The AI-first code editor crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue in November 2025 and became one of the fastest-growing developer tools of the era. The deal, expected to close in the third quarter pending regulatory approval, would fold Cursor's software engineering platform in alongside xAI's Colossus training supercomputer. The logic is compute plus product. Elon Musk's overlapping empire pairs one of the largest AI training clusters in the world with a tool millions of engineers already use daily, creating a tight loop between building models and putting them to work writing code. Whether regulators wave through a tie-up of this size is another question.

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## Wortins' read

In one of the more surprising deals of the year, SpaceX has confirmed it is acquiring Anysphere, the company behind the AI coding tool Cursor, in an all-stock transaction worth $60 billion. The move came just a week after SpaceX's own blockbuster public debut. Cursor is a genuine prize, not a vanity buy. The AI-first code editor crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue in November 2025 and became one of the fastest-growing developer tools of the era. The deal, expected to close in the third quarter pending regulatory approval, would fold Cursor's software engineering platform in alongside xAI's Colossus training supercomputer. The logic is compute plus product. Elon Musk's overlapping empire pairs one of the largest AI training clusters in the world with a tool millions of engineers already use daily, creating a tight loop between building models and putting them to work writing code. Whether regulators wave through a tie-up of this size is another question.

## Source

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