SpaceX buys AI coding startup Cursor
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SpaceX will buy Cursor parent Anysphere in a $60B all-stock deal, giving Elon Musk’s company a major AI coding asset days after its IPO.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is buying the startup behind the popular AI coding agent Cursor, Anysphere, for US$60 billion in an all-stock deal to boost its presence in the lucrative enterprise AI tools market.
SpaceX hopes to boost its AI company, which has fallen behind key competitors.
The Elon Musk-led company is betting on a buzzy startup to reverse its vibe-coding struggles.
CEO Elon Musk has made yet another sweeping prediction about the future of work, this time aimed squarely at software engineers. Speaking at a recent conference, the Tesla chief argued that the entire practice of writing code in human-readable programming languages is about to become obsolete.
Tesla and xAI boss Elon Musk is well-known for making forward-looking statements on AI and its impact on jobs and society.
