--- title: SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition | daily.dev description: Cursor, the AI coding startup, has officially become part of SpaceX after the $60 billion acquisition deal closed. The deal was first announced in April as a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/spacex-officially-closes-its-cursor-acquisition-x4dxjl742 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition | daily.dev og:description: Cursor, the AI coding startup, has officially become part of SpaceX after the $60 billion acquisition deal closed. The deal was first announced in April as a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/spacex-officially-closes-its-cursor-acquisition-x4dxjl742 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/x4dXjl742.png og:image:alt: SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition 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 officially closes its Cursor acquisition **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cursor, the AI coding startup, has officially become part of SpaceX after the $60 billion acquisition deal closed. The deal was first announced in April as a partnership with an option to buy, and progressed toward full acquisition in June following SpaceX's IPO. Cursor says the move gives it access to SpaceX's GPU fleet, which the company has also been renting to customers like Anthropic and Google, though SpaceX faces a separate lawsuit over pollution from its data center gas turbines. ## 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 officially closed its acquisition of Cursor, the AI coding startup, for $60 billion in stock. The deal was first announced in April 2026 as a partnership with an option to buy, and the companies confirmed they were moving forward with the acquisition in June 2026 shortly after SpaceX's IPO. _Follow how AI coding tool ownership shifts like this reshape which assistants developers rely on, via daily.dev._ ### What does Cursor get from being acquired by SpaceX? Cursor gains access to what it describes as the largest fleet of GPUs in the world through SpaceX's computing infrastructure. SpaceX has also been renting out this compute capacity to other customers, including Anthropic and Google, positioning Cursor to scale its AI coding intelligence using that same hardware base. _daily.dev helps developers track how compute and ownership changes affect the coding tools they depend on._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO](https://daily.dev/posts/spacex-to-acquire-cursor-for-60b-in-stock-days-after-blockbuster-ipo-sgn0r7daz) · TechCrunch · 32 upvotes · 6 comments - [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 --- Tags: [#business](https://daily.dev/tags/business), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#spacex](https://daily.dev/tags/spacex) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/spacex-officially-closes-its-cursor-acquisition-x4dxjl742) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/spacex-officially-closes-its-cursor-acquisition-x4dxjl742","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/spacex-officially-closes-its-cursor-acquisition-x4dxjl742"},"datePublished":"2026-08-15T16:30:36.948Z","dateModified":"2026-08-21T04:37:24.984Z","description":"Cursor, the AI coding startup, has officially become part of SpaceX after the $60 billion acquisition deal closed. 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