Cursor is now a part of SpaceX (cursor.com)
70 points by billy_jones_75 5 hours ago
GMoromisato 20 minutes ago
I'm skeptical of this deal. Cursor led the way on agentic coding, but Claude Code and Codex have replaced it. [I use Codex for everything now.]
Still, I'm hearing that Grok 4.6 is almost as good at coding as Codex, but lots cheaper. [My network is also down on Claude--Opus 5 seems like a regression.]
The optimistic scenario would be Grok being a fast-follower with cheaper rates, and staying ahead of open source models. If they can pull that off, and convince enough developers, then maybe they've got a chance.
But $60B seems insane to me. What's Cursor's market share relative to Codex and Claude Code? If it's not meaningful, then it's $60B for an acquihire.
_menelaus 3 minutes ago
Its 60B for a huge amount of RL coding data to become competitive in the space.
q3qahg an hour ago
Elon is still all in on replacing programmers. He listens to always the same stupid booster accounts (XFreeze etc.).
Good that there is now an administration that creates jobs, does not engage in foreign wars and has ended the Ukraine war in 24 hours.
hardwaregeek 10 minutes ago
I feel like people aren’t updating to the possibility that a significant portion of software development could be under the purview of SpaceX. Whether it’s developer Twitter, Cursor’s planned GitHub competitor, or Cursor/Grok, that’s a lot of the developer mindshare. Granted, there’s a lot of competition in all of these spaces except for maybe Twitter, so it might not happen. But there’s a chance! And that possibility is fairly concerning.
imagent 2 hours ago
Keep in mind while this is the date they officially became part of SpaceX, they have already been collaborating on building models together. So don't expect a significant bump in performance on new Grok models due to the additional data from Cursor--that bump already happened with Grok 4.5[1] and now 4.6.
james_pm 5 minutes ago
[delayed]
cedws an hour ago
Isn't it SpaceXAI now? I lost track.
r14c an hour ago
X, the everything app, formerly known as Twitter, now SpaceXAI XCursor X.
pennomi 9 minutes ago
Time to rebrand to CurXor?
steveBK123 36 minutes ago
AI by xAI, a SpaceX subsidiary fka as Twitter, special collab with Cursor
echelon an hour ago
That's like a popular 2000's era username.
xXxSpaceXAixX
InsideOutSanta 43 minutes ago
goolz 33 minutes ago
ubercore 44 minutes ago
Apocryphon an hour ago
SpaceX, the everything company
stronglikedan 43 minutes ago
SketchySeaBeast 40 minutes ago
How long until he names a company "E" just so he can giggle about the name?
AnEro 36 minutes ago
Subscription is gone the second I feel like their not running the inference at a loss
deburo 22 minutes ago
I'm hoping Cursor becomes the third biggest (American) AI model company, replacing Google. Elon works best with top talent, and I think Cursor most kept its team together; were there any big departure from there recently?
dcrazy 18 minutes ago
What proprietary models does Cursor offer? Do they have any of the infrastructure to develop, train, and refine a frontier model?
minraws 15 minutes ago
Now they do have SpaceX's GPUs and Grok models...
I mean I get that we can all dislike this move but it might the best way to get into the race to become one of the top labs. Ofc Grok 4.6 is not there yet, I have seen people claim it's quite good and it is but it's a marginal improvement over the mid tier models from the top 2.
And it's certainly worse than the recent GLM 5.3 (especially once we get the weights for it).
hparadiz 5 minutes ago
stackghost 19 minutes ago
Conversely, I'm hoping all Elon's companies go bankrupt. Elon works best with top talent because he is nothing but a grifter good at taking credit for the hard work of others (see: Tesla), and failing upwards.
Concentrating so much wealth in one unstable Nazi[0] like Elon is objectively bad for society.
ChrisArchitect an hour ago
porphyra 27 minutes ago
Hopefully they can unify the harnesses now. Weird how there's both grok build and cursor-agent at the same time.
ravenstine an hour ago
I get it and yet I don't. On one hand, my experience with Cursor (albeit limited) tells me that it's a perfect fit with Elon's other ventures. Then again, I don't see how there's anything so special about it that SpaceXAI would want to acquire it for either the software itself or the talent behind it. It seems more likely that acquiring Cursor is a way to get more users for Grok, seeing as how it still has a very small share of the market.
melodyogonna 9 minutes ago
Grok has started competing with frontier models on coding thanks to Cursor's data, with SpaceX's massive compute they can undercut competition on price, which makes the offering real appealing.
I've now switched to Grok 4.6, I was previously using Opus 4.8 but Grok is good enough now, and way cheaper which is the important part.
freedomben an hour ago
I've never seen the appeal of cursor either, but then I'm a decades-long vim (now neovim) guy and don't use IDEs in general. But for me claude/codex TUIs are a great way to fit agents into my workflow.
My suspicion is that it's a way to break into more developer workflows for Grok, even if the market share is relatively small. I've never used grok and don't plan to at this point, but I have highly respected friends who say it is pretty damn good, and some of them even started using Cursor because of this pairing, so anecdatally at least it does seem to be working.
stronglikedan 39 minutes ago
So they can play the game that the other big AI companies are playing, where they invest in one another to make each one look bigger on the books, even though it's all the same money, likely.
modeless an hour ago
The data is special. Data of programmers using coding agents in the real world is invaluable for AI training. And their customer base is useful to deploy new models into.
andsoitis 35 minutes ago
Congrats to everyone at Cursor!
vegancap 17 minutes ago
Cooool, won't be using that again
sidcool 2 hours ago
They were not joking
mock-possum an hour ago
Shame.
stronglikedan 42 minutes ago
Why? The product isn't likely to change
maximilianburke 18 minutes ago
But the people collecting the money have.
midnitewarrior an hour ago
...and I won't be revisiting Cursor again.
stronglikedan 42 minutes ago
Why not? The product isn't likely to change
sudonem 30 minutes ago
Some people perhaps just don’t want to give money to literal Bond villains. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
sajithdilshan an hour ago
…and the world kept spinning
thecrumb 5 hours ago
Eeeewww. Grok. Off to look at Zed.
jjtheblunt an hour ago
Zed's very handy, I find, and i'm not saying so because i'm driven to it by aversion to alternatives: it's just very useful.
nxc18 36 minutes ago
Why not just use VS Code which cursor (and antigravity and the one Amazon is pushing) is a fork of? It will be much closer in functionality and has been loaded up with agent features nonstop for the last 18 months.
spottedmarley 5 hours ago
...to the moon?
oniony 2 hours ago
Think the aim is Mars.
tshaddox an hour ago
Earlier this year they literally publicized changing their immediate goal from Mars to the Moon.
Ekaros 2 hours ago
Perfect tool for rocket control systems and in general control and life support systems of Mars colonies.
aanet 2 hours ago
an0malous an hour ago
It’s been enshittified to the Moon now
kykat an hour ago
I swear I actually laughed out loud with this, is this a joke?
stronglikedan 41 minutes ago
Companies buy other companies all the time, so I'm not sure why anyone is surprised.
marcosdumay 14 minutes ago
If somebody missed that one news, one can easily get to the conclusion that SpaceX tried to manipulate index funds to buy their shares, and sold into an incredibly high valuation to keep the money. Not to reinvest it into the business.
rvz an hour ago
No.