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SpaceXAI completes its Cursor acquisition following Grok Bot and Grok 4.6 release
When SpaceX isn’t landing rockets, it’s apparently landing AI company deals. In February, the firm behind Starlink absorbed xAI, which includes Twitter-turned-X. In April, SpaceX inked a deal with Cursor, a competitor to Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex. As of August 14, the purchase has been completed. SpaceXAI, as it’s now called, also recently released Grok Bot and Grok 4.6 models with the help of Cursor.
Update 8/14/2026: SpaceXAI has completed its purchase of Cursor.
Cursor is now part of @SpaceX. Today, we have officially closed our acquisition. We will join the @SpaceXAI team to help make Grok the world's most useful AI and improve Grok Build, Grok Bot, Grok API, Cursor, and more.SpaceX has built some of the most inspiring and…
Update 6/16/2026: SpaceX has acquired Cursor a week after becoming a publicly traded company.
We're excited to join forces with @SpaceX to advance the frontier of useful AI. Expect significant improvements to Cursor soon. https://t.co/62IMr2sgEy
Cursor has been popular with software engineers who code with AI on the Mac. It was one of the first services to connect large language model artificial intelligence to the process of building apps.
In April, SpaceX and Cursor are “working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI,” the two companies say.
The collaboration originally included a $10 billion payment from SpaceX to Cursor:
SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI.The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will…
Cursor shared more details about the arrangement in April ahead of today’s acquisition: