SpaceX just made the largest software acquisition in history, snagging Cursor for $60 billion in an all-stock deal. With over 1 million paying customers and $2 billion in annualized revenue projected to hit $6 billion by end of 2026, this is no vanity purchase. SpaceX now controls rockets, satellites, AI models, chips and the tool every developer on earth uses to write code.
Cursor isn't just a text editor — it's the layer where software actually gets built, and every engineer using it is training Grok to engineer better without even realizing it. SpaceX already had compute, models, rockets and factories; the missing piece was where the software powering all of it gets written. That feedback loop of objective, test-driven AI learning is the real $60 billion asset.
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