SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition
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- SpaceX has officially closed its acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor, Cursor announced on its blog.
- SpaceX struck the deal in April with an option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion, then confirmed two months later — as SpaceX became a public company — that it was moving forward.
- Cursor will gain access to what it called "the largest fleet of GPUs in the world" by joining SpaceX, which the company said "is building the computing capacity needed to scale intelligence far beyond what exists today."
- SpaceX has been renting its computing infrastructure to customers including Anthropic and Google, per the Cursor announcement.
- SpaceX also faces a lawsuit over pollution from gas turbines powering its data centers — a detail absent from Cursor's celebratory announcement.
Why it matters: SpaceX now owns a major AI coding tool and what it calls the world's largest GPU fleet, which it already rents to Anthropic and Google — concentrating a flagship AI application and the compute that powers competing AI labs under one corporate roof.
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