Fresh off its Wall Street debut, SpaceX is making a dramatic move into artificial intelligence.
According to a report carried by MSN, Elon Musk's rocket company has agreed to buy Anysphere — the startup behind the popular AI coding tool Cursor — in a deal valued at roughly $60 billion. The report describes it as one of the largest acquisitions the AI sector has ever seen.
The timing is striking. The MSN report notes the agreement comes just days after SpaceX completed what it calls a historic stock-market debut, taking the once-private company public.
That debut has been turbulent. According to CNBC, SpaceX stock has swung through big spikes and drops during its opening two weeks as a publicly traded company. CNBC frames the volatility around what it describes as "the cult of Elon," with investors grappling with the sharp moves tied to Musk's high-profile presence.
Taken together, the two reports sketch a company moving fast on multiple fronts at once: absorbing the choppiness of newly public shares while simultaneously deploying enormous resources to plant a flag in AI. Cursor, Anysphere's flagship product, is widely used by software developers to write and edit code with AI assistance — a tool that could fold into SpaceX's broader engineering ambitions.
The sources here do not detail how the acquisition will be financed, whether regulators will scrutinize it, or how Cursor's existing users and products will be affected. Those questions remain open.
Why it matters: a rocket maker spending a reported $60 billion to acquire a leading AI coding startup signals how aggressively the lines between space, software, and artificial intelligence are blurring — and how much weight investors are now placing on Musk-led bets.