The ink has dried.
SpaceX closed its $60 cardinal acquisition of the AI coding startup Cursor connected Friday. The 2 companies first collaborated successful April, giving Elon Musk's abstraction company the correct to bargain Cursor. SpaceX officially committed to the acquisition successful June.
On SpaceX's August earnings call, Musk was hesitant to springiness immoderate specifications astir the SpaceX-Cursor partnership. "We don't want to jump the weapon connected regulators for closing the acquisition," he said.
The 2 companies, however, person already been adjacent collaborators. Here's how.
Supporting Grok
Used a caller Grok model? You person Cursor to thank.
Cursor trained Grok 4.5 jointly pinch SpaceX. That included utilizing "trillions of tokens of Cursor data," the AI coding institution said. It was the first exemplary Cursor built that wasn't only for package engineering.
"It's been a pleasance moving pinch the SpaceXAI squad connected it," Cursor cofounder Aman Sanger said connected X successful July.
The institution besides helped train Grok 4.6, which SpaceX released connected Wednesday.
Compute
Cursor's business had 1 colossal benefit.
The institution sewage to usage Colossus, SpaceX's supercomputer powered by 200,000 Nvidia GPUs. The information halfway is besides used by Anthropic.
In its April announcement, Cursor wrote that utilizing Colossus would let the institution to "dramatically standard up" its models' intelligence.
"We've wanted to push our training efforts overmuch further, but we've been bottlenecked by compute," Cursor wrote.
Bundled Subscriptions
SpaceX released its caller AI agent, called Grok Bot, connected Tuesday.
It was disposable for SuperGrok Heavy users, arsenic expected. Cursor Ultra subscribers and Cursor Premium Teams besides gained entree to the product.
Recent Grok releases were besides included arsenic "first-party models" successful Cursor's system.
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Henry Chandonnet is simply a elder newsman connected the Business News desk. He writes astir tech culture, from Silicon Valley's startup people to the mundane AI user. He besides intimately covers Big Tech and the workplace. Henry antecedently wrote for Fast Company, wherever he covered trending tech news. He's written for The Daily Beast, People Magazine, and Vulture.Email Henry astatine [email protected], scope him connected Signal astatine henrychand.30, aliases travel him connected X @HenryChandonnet.
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