When SpaceX isn’t busy landing rockets, it’s evidently securing AI company partnerships. Two months prior, the organization behind Starlink acquired xAI, which encompasses Twitter-turned-X. Now, SpaceX is focusing on Cursor, a rival to Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex.
### SpaceX Enters $10 Billion Agreement with Cursor That Could Result in $60 Billion Buyout
Cursor has garnered attention from software developers who utilize AI on the Mac. It was among the pioneering services to link large language model artificial intelligence with app development processes.
Currently, SpaceX and Cursor are “collaborating closely to develop the world’s leading coding and knowledge work AI,” according to the two firms.
This partnership involves a $10 billion investment from SpaceX to Cursor, or potentially, if circumstances favor Cursor, a $60 billion buyout.
Cursor provided additional insights regarding the deal:
> “Cursor is collaborating with SpaceX to enhance our model training initiatives. We launched Composer less than six months ago as our inaugural agentic coding model. Subsequently, Composer 1.5 increased reinforcement learning by over 20x. Composer 2 then introduced ongoing pretraining, achieving frontier-level performance at a fraction of the cost compared to other models. Each increase in computation has led to significantly more advanced models. We’ve aimed to advance our training capabilities much further, but have faced limitations due to computing power. With this collaboration, our team will utilize xAI’s Colossus infrastructure to substantially elevate the intelligence of our models.”
Whether this is a temporary alliance or the beginning of an acquisition, the SpaceX-Cursor partnership enhances a contender to Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex agentic coding software.
As for Apple, we’ll observe what new AI tools the company prepares for developers at WWDC 2026 in just over a month. Apple already facilitates agentic coding within Xcode.
Apple will unveil iOS 27 and macOS 27 along with its new range of Google Gemini-powered Apple Intelligence features and developer tools on June 8.