US$60 billion technology acquisition completed SpaceX officially enters the "Vibe Coding" battlefield SpaceX has completed the acquisition of artificial intelligence programming startup Cursor. This transaction is an important step for Elon Musk to catch up with competitors such as Anthropic and OpenAI

US$60 Billion Technology Acquisition Landed SpaceX Officially Enters the "Vibe Coding" Battlefield SpaceX has completed the acquisition of artificial intelligence programming startup Cursor. This transaction is an important step for Elon Musk to catch up with competitors such as Anthropic and OpenAI. According to regulatory documents, the transaction officially took effect on August 14. Cursor also announced on its official website that it was officially acquired by SpaceX. The acquisition process began in April this year, when the two companies announced a cooperation to accelerate model training. Source: Cursor official website Two months ago, SpaceX officially agreed to acquire Cursor to help it catch up with its opponents in the field of programming tools. The deal is valued at $60 billion, making it one of the largest acquisitions in the technology industry. Programming is a lucrative market in current AI applications. Musk's AI business, now known as SpaceXAI, has had limited applications in the enterprise market and has gone through a series of layoffs and organizational restructuring. Earlier this month, Musk told a SpaceX employee meeting that the company "has to be successful in software." At that time, Musk also emphasized that artificial intelligence is the core of SpaceX’s current and future development. "By September, our AI revenue will exceed all other SpaceX revenue," he said at the conference. Cursor is launching an AI assistant in 2023 designed to help programmers write and debug code more efficiently. Since then, it has risen at a historic speed and become a core player in the era of "vibe coding" in the technology industry. With the deal completed, Cursor's co-founders will become billionaires, and the startup's team will also have access to SpaceX's large stockpile of advanced AI chips. Cursor said in a blog post: "We will be able to use the world's largest GPU cluster to obtain more computing power, build more powerful models, and reduce the running cost of the model." In July of this year (before the transaction was officially completed), SpaceX and Cursor jointly launched the first model Grok 4.5. The two companies said Grok 4.5 focuses on programming, finance, legal and other tasks and is less expensive to use than other competing models. Since then, SpaceX has launched Grok Bot, a product that can continue to receive and perform various tasks throughout the day like a team of AI agents. In addition, the company also launched the upgraded Grok 4.6 model. In addition to Cursor, SpaceX has also reached a series of multi-billion dollar transactions, allowing Anthropic, Goo