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Posted by dmarcos 2 days ago

SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B(twitter.com)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/spacex-says-it-has-option...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/business/spacex-cursor-de... (https://archive.ph/c2Tac)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/spacex-sa...

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boznz 2 days ago|
Looking forward to seeing where this goes, both companies have a reputation for engineering excellence.
boznz 2 days ago|
Seriously DONT CHANGE THE FUCKING POST TITLE AFTER SOMEONE HAS COMMENTED
gcr 2 days ago||
Why SpaceX and not xAI?
Skunkleton 2 days ago|
Because spacex already bought xai.
topherPedersen 2 days ago||
$60 billion with a B???
zeptonix 2 days ago||
Absolutely retarded and absurdly overpriced for a tool that's basically fallen out of use. They're just trying to do anything they can to justify a crazy IPO valuation so they can keep pumping money into xAI.
Insanity 2 days ago||
Of all Musk’s “companies” this makes least sense to me. xAI is at least in the AI space, X.com is a true tech company and Tesla is also closer to AI than SpaceX.

Guess SpaceX is the only one with the money “available”.

SilverBirch 2 days ago||
You're forgetting that xAI and X.com have both already been folded into SpaceX (First xAI acquired X.com, then xAI got acquired by SpaceX, both mergers were all-stock acquisitions so they were done with funny money). So when people say "SpaceX" now that does encompass both xAI and X.com as well. The reason Tesla wouldn't do this is because Tesla is a public company so it's more difficult for them to do insane shit without being sued.
zipy124 2 days ago||
I think perhaps you missed the previous news that SpaceX acquired xAI. Thus this is basically just xAI buying Cursor.
Insanity 2 days ago||
Ahh, yeah I did miss that.
jonplackett 2 days ago||
Every now and then I feel like I got a handle on AI and it makes sense. Then something like this happens and either my whole concept of it is wrong, or this makes no sense and is insane.
kdavis 2 days ago||
Time to switch
NuclearPM 2 days ago||
A text editor?
rblion 1 day ago||
I'm still loyal to Anthropic. Not perfect but I trust them. End of story.
GuB-42 2 days ago|
Is is me or the world of finance is going crazy. Or maybe it has always been.

SpaceX, a rocket company owned by Elon Musk bought xAI, an AI company also owned by Elon Musk for... reasons. Don't give me the datacenters in space narrative, we all know it is bullshit.

It is then buying the option to buy a company for which the only contribution is a glorified VSCode plugin and the reselling of other companies LLM services at an absurd price. I understand that it is more complicated than that but 60 fucking billions, that's the GDP of a small country!

And now, Elon Musk intends to IPO SpaceX, which means he expect people to buy into all this bullshit. And considering that unlike me and judging by his wealth, he seems to be really good at understanding the market, so he is likely to be right.

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