SpaceX is stepping up its AI programming track: plans to acquire Cursor for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for collaboration.

SpaceX announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire the artificial intelligence programming startup Cursor for $60 billion later this year, or pay $10 billion for cooperation between the two parties, in order to catch up with competitors in the field of artificial intelligence programming. SpaceX posted on X to announce the transaction, stating that the two companies are "now working closely together to build the world's best artificial intelligence programming and knowledge work." SpaceX plans to go public with an initial public offering (IPO) later this year, following a recent merger with Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI. Musk had previously stated that xAI was lagging behind its peers in programming tools and vowed to rebuild the company from scratch. In March of this year, he ordered layoffs. Additionally, he has been actively seeking engineering talent, including poaching from Cursor. Cursor was reportedly in talks with investors to raise about $2 billion in funding and was valued at over $50 billion (excluding this investment). Nvidia and the Andreessen Horowitz Fund both plan to participate in this transaction. Cursor's artificial intelligence assistant was launched in 2023, aimed at helping programmers write and debug code more efficiently. With the increasing demand from software developers for artificial intelligence programming tools, Cursor has become one of the fastest-growing startups in history and plays a central role in the "Vibe Coding" era of the tech industry. The core concept of "Vibe Coding" is to communicate with AI through natural language, focusing on expressing creativity and needs without manually writing or deeply understanding underlying code. Cursor President Oskar Schulz said, "The SpaceX team has powerful computational capabilities, and we believe that cooperation between us can expand the scale of our model building. We are very excited about this. We greatly appreciate their team." As Anthropuitc, OpenAI, and many other startups launch products aimed at simplifying the software development process, competition in the field of artificial intelligence programming is intensifying.