In an X post on Tuesday, SpaceX referred to a clumsily named entity called “SpaceXAI”—a term Musk has used before—but that’s not even the big news. The big news is that SpaceX, assuming that’s still what the rocket company that also owns xAI and X the social media app wants to be called, now has the option to buy the AI company Cursor for a rather breathtaking $60 billion.
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…
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 21, 2026
Apparently SpaceX has tapped cursor to help it build AI for “coding and knowledge work”—in other words AI designed to code and do computer-based drudgery. This follows OpenAI’s pivot to enterprise last month, which in turn came after the rise of frenetic AI productivity mania brought on by the release of OpenClaw, which in turn was helped along by Anthropic’s Claude Code, which launched in 2025.
But before there was Claude Code there was Cursor, one of the original vibe coding apps, which launched in 2023. Last year, when Cursor’s parent, Anysphere, raised a $105 million funding round, it was valued at $2.5 billion. By my math, SpaceX apparently thinks the Cursor product alone may be worth 24 times that amount.
The joint project earns Cursor either $10 billion, or if SpaceX is feeling acquisitive, it could just be bought for the full $60 billion at some point “later this year.”
60 is a lot of billions of dollars. For reference, while the SpaceX IPO has a targeted listing valuation of $1.75 trillion, SpaceX hopes to raise $75 billion from investors. In a sense, SpaceX would be spending 80 percent of that before the IPO is even done if it opts to buy Cursor.
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