{"id":81741,"date":"2026-08-15T14:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dralysstore.com\/blog\/?p=81741"},"modified":"2026-08-15T14:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:58:14","slug":"spacex-officially-closes-its-cursor-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dralysstore.com\/blog\/spacex-officially-closes-its-cursor-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX, according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cursor.com\/blog\/joining-spacex\" target=\"_blank\">an announcement on the Cursor blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX \u2014 which also acquired Musk\u2019s xAI earlier this year \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/04\/21\/spacex-is-working-with-cursor-and-has-an-option-to-buy-the-startup-for-60-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced a deal in April<\/a> for the companies to develop technology together; the deal also gave SpaceX the option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion. Two months later, as SpaceX became a public company, the companies said they were <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/06\/16\/spacex-to-acquire-cursor-for-60b-in-stock-days-after-blockbuster-ipo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moving forward with the acquisition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mobile ad-unit--has-placeholder ad-unit--display wp-block-tc-ads-ad-slot has-background has-gray-100-background-color\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--desktop ad-unit--native wp-block-tc-ads-ad-slot\">\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In its announcement that the deal has closed, Cursor repeatedly referenced SpaceX\u2019s computing infrastructure, which the company has been <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/08\/04\/spacex-doubles-revenues-on-anthropic-and-google-compute-deals-starlink-growth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">renting out to customers including Anthropic and Google<\/a>. (SpaceX also <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/06\/18\/xai-is-facing-a-lawsuit-for-operating-over-400-mw-of-gas-turbines-without-permits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">faces a lawsuit over the pollution created by its data center gas turbines<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cursor said that by becoming part of SpaceX, it will have \u201caccess to the largest fleet of GPUs in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSpaceX is building the computing capacity needed to scale intelligence far beyond what exists today,\u201d the company added. \u201cCursor will be one place where that intelligence becomes useful.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Published by Dralys Blog \u2013 Stories | Insights | Innovation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Discover more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dralysstore.com\" target=\"_blank\">DralysStore.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-2\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"81741\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"no\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-heart\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX, according to an announcement&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":81742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[74,34,65,176,45,177,10],"class_list":["post-81741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-commerce-shopping","tag-dralys","tag-e-commerce","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-ecosystem","tag-innovation","tag-smart-shopping","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dralysstore.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cursor.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dralysstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dralysstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dralysstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dralysstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dralysstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dralysstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81743,"href":"https:\/\/dralysstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81741\/revisions\/81743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dralysstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dralysstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dralysstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dralysstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}