Elon Musk’s company announces partnership with Cursor to accelerate model training efforts
owned by the businessman, announced on Tuesday (April 21, 2026) an agreement to acquire the –artificial intelligence startup for programming– for US$60 billion, later this year, or pay US$10 billion for the companies’ joint work.
In an X, SpaceX declared that companies are “working closely to create the best AI for programming and intellectual work in the world”.
In the post, the company said that “Combining Cursor’s leading product and distribution to specialized software engineers with SpaceX’s Colossus training supercomputer, equivalent to one million H100s, will enable us to build the world’s most useful models.”
With the IPO scheduled for mid-June, SpaceX and , an artificial intelligence company, both owned by Musk.
Cursor’s AI assistant, launching in 2023, helps programmers write and debug code more efficiently.
“We wanted to take our training efforts much further, but were limited by computational power. With this partnership, our team will leverage xAI’s Colossus infrastructure to dramatically expand the intelligence of our models.”says Cursor.
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