SpaceX acquires AI coding platform Cursor
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By Aditya Soni and Deborah Mary Sophia June 16 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX is buying the startup behind the popular AI coding agent Cursor, Anysphere, for $60 billion in an all-stock deal to boost its presence in the lucrative enterprise AI tools market.
Not everyone believes SpaceX is overvalued, though. Investment bank Oppenheimer and Co. raised its projection for SpaceX stock from $190 to $250 following the acquisition disclosure. Analyst Timothy Horan said that SpaceX "owns every layer of the AI stack, giving it cost and quality advantages," and that Cursor is a major component of that.
SpaceX has agreed to buy AI startup Cursor for $60 billion in stock, concluding a deal that was first announced earlier this year. In April, the two companies signed a partnership that saw SpaceX agree to either invest $10 billion into Cursor or buy it outright for $60 billion.
