--- title: SpaceX has closed its $60bn Cursor deal, and Cursor was... description: SpaceX has officially closed its $60bn acquisition of Cursor (legal entity Anysphere), confirmed via regulatory filing on 14 August, following the binding... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/spacex-has-closed-its-60bn-cursor-deal-and-cursor-was-buying-a-company-the-day-before-eu85aekdj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: SpaceX has closed its $60bn Cursor deal, and Cursor was buying a company the day before | daily.dev og:description: SpaceX has officially closed its $60bn acquisition of Cursor (legal entity Anysphere), confirmed via regulatory filing on 14 August, following the binding... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/spacex-has-closed-its-60bn-cursor-deal-and-cursor-was-buying-a-company-the-day-before-eu85aekdj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/eu85AEkdJ.png og:image:alt: SpaceX has closed its $60bn Cursor deal, and Cursor was buying a company the day before og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # SpaceX has closed its $60bn Cursor deal, and Cursor was buying a company the day before **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary SpaceX has officially closed its $60bn acquisition of Cursor (legal entity Anysphere), confirmed via regulatory filing on 14 August, following the binding agreement disclosed in June. Cursor says the deal gives it access to the world's largest GPU fleet, promising cheaper, more capable models, and points to the newly released Grok 4.6 as an early result of the SpaceXAI partnership that began in April. Oddly, Cursor was itself acquiring another company, Firetiger, the day before its own acquisition closed, and it retains its name, blog, and independent dealmaking. The move is framed as part of Musk's push to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI in coding AI, even though Anthropic is also a major SpaceX compute customer paying roughly $45bn over time. Musk has told staff AI revenue should surpass rocket revenue by September, putting pressure on the deal's payoff timeline, while the broader market shifts toward cheaper open-source orchestration layers that could undercut the rationale for owning GPUs outright. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Did SpaceX finish acquiring Cursor? Yes, SpaceX completed its $60bn acquisition of Cursor on 14 August, confirmed through a regulatory filing and reported by Bloomberg. The deal had been announced as a binding agreement in June, when SpaceX filed an 8-K expecting completion in the third quarter subject to regulatory approval, which has now occurred on schedule. _Anyone tracking AI coding tool consolidation can follow how the Cursor-SpaceX deal reshapes pricing on daily.dev._ ### What does Cursor get out of being acquired by SpaceX? Cursor gains access to what it calls the largest fleet of GPUs in the world, which it says will let it build stronger models that are also cheaper to run for customers. The relationship builds on an April partnership with SpaceXAI for model training and the July release of Grok 4.5, an Opus-class coding model priced below rivals. _Developers weighing AI coding tool costs can track how compute ownership changes Cursor's pricing on daily.dev._ ### Did Cursor stop operating independently after being bought by SpaceX? No, Cursor kept its name, its blog, and its own acquisition activity even after the deal closed; the legal entity behind it is Anysphere. In fact, Cursor announced acquiring Firetiger just one day before the SpaceX deal closed, following its earlier December acquisition of Graphite. _Teams choosing an AI coding assistant can watch whether Cursor stays independent-feeling on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [SpaceX makes its $60bn Cursor takeover official](https://daily.dev/posts/spacex-makes-its-60bn-cursor-takeover-official-6btmz1odt) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [SpaceX Just Bought Cursor for $60 Billion. 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