With an IPO looming for Elon Musk's SpaceX / xAI / X combo platter of companies, SpaceX has announced an odd arrangement to either acquire the automated programming platform Cursor for $60 billion or pay a fee of $10 billion. The New York Times first reported a possible deal, and SpaceX confirmed it in a tweet.
SpaceX and Cursor are now working closely together to create the world's best coding and knowledge work AI.
The combination of Cursor's leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX's million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world's most useful models.
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DW Deutsch 
