# SpaceX Acquires Cursor IDE for $60B; Launches Grok 4.5 With Cursor Data

> In one of the year's larger deals, SpaceX has acquired the Cursor coding IDE for roughly $60 billion in an all-stock transaction, pulling the popular developer tool under the same roof as xAI. The first visible product of that combination is Grok 4.5, released July 8 and trained jointly with Cursor using what the companies describe as trillions of tokens of real IDE interaction data. That data is the point. By owning the editor where developers actually work, the merged lab gets a continuous stream of how people write, debug, and refactor code, a feedback loop that is hard for rivals to replicate. Grok 4.5 is pitched not just for software engineering but for data science, finance, and legal work, and it is available across desktop, web, iOS, a command line, and an SDK. The deal is striking for what it says about consolidation. Frontier models, the tools that surround them, and the launch infrastructure are increasingly being gathered into single companies, and a rocket firm buying a code editor to feed its AI lab is about as clear a sign as any that the boundaries between these businesses are dissolving.

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## Wortins' read

In one of the year's larger deals, SpaceX has acquired the Cursor coding IDE for roughly $60 billion in an all-stock transaction, pulling the popular developer tool under the same roof as xAI. The first visible product of that combination is Grok 4.5, released July 8 and trained jointly with Cursor using what the companies describe as trillions of tokens of real IDE interaction data. That data is the point. By owning the editor where developers actually work, the merged lab gets a continuous stream of how people write, debug, and refactor code, a feedback loop that is hard for rivals to replicate. Grok 4.5 is pitched not just for software engineering but for data science, finance, and legal work, and it is available across desktop, web, iOS, a command line, and an SDK. The deal is striking for what it says about consolidation. Frontier models, the tools that surround them, and the launch infrastructure are increasingly being gathered into single companies, and a rocket firm buying a code editor to feed its AI lab is about as clear a sign as any that the boundaries between these businesses are dissolving.

## Source

[Read the full story at Cursor](https://cursor.com/blog/grok-4-5)

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