Elon Musk, the man who builds reusable rockets, sells flamethrowers as stocking stuffers, tweets like a caffeinated raccoon at 3 a.m., and now casually impulse-buys AI coding companies the way normal people acquire useless household applicance. Today, June 16, SpaceX officially acquired Anysphere (the geniuses behind Cursor, the beloved AI code editor) for a “modest” $60 billion. Yes, sixty billion dollars. For a tool that makes your code less embarrassing. We are truly living in the future.
Back in April, SpaceX announced a partnership to train “the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI” on their monster Colossus supercluster. The contract had two options: pay a cute little $10 billion for the collab… or just buy the entire company later for $60 billion. Obviously, they chose the nuclear “let’s own it” route. Because why rent when you can yeet sixty billion dollars at four MIT dropouts and call it synergy?
Cursor’s growth since 2022 has been absolutely ridiculous — faster than a Starship test flight with “minor unscheduled disassembly.” The company just hit $2.6 billion in annualized B2B revenue, with corporate sales exploding so hard you’d think every Fortune 500 engineer suddenly discovered the joy of not writing boilerplate anymore.
Now, this acquisition hands xAI (the plucky Grok-making side project SpaceX swallowed earlier this year) a massive rocket booster in the AI programming world — an area where they were previously getting gently roasted by the competition. Translation: Elon just vertically integrated the entire “write better code → build better rockets → colonize Mars” pipeline in one glorious, wallet-destroying move.
In the end, SpaceX didn’t just buy a code editor.. They bought a faster way to build the future. And if that future includes Cursor being even more magical than it already is… then sixty billion well spent.
