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  • Will they rebrand as codeX or Xcode? Trouble either way.
    by james_pm
  • Guess this means graphite is also going to be part of spaceX, what a weird turn of events here. Guess it’s good GH is actively working to support stacks
    by ghthor
  • Congrats to everyone at Cursor!
    by andsoitis
  • Hopefully they can unify the harnesses now. Weird how there's both grok build and cursor-agent at the same time.
    by porphyra
  • Cooool, won't be using that again
    by vegancap
  • Subscription is gone the second I feel like their not running the inference at a loss
    by AnEro
  • Previously in June:

    SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553224

    by ChrisArchitect
  • Isn't it SpaceXAI now? I lost track.
    by cedws
  • How long until he names a company "E" just so he can giggle about the name?
    by SketchySeaBeast
  • X, the everything app, formerly known as Twitter, now SpaceXAI XCursor X.
    by r14c
  • I feel like people aren’t updating to the possibility that a significant portion of software development could be under the purview of SpaceX. Whether it’s developer Twitter, Cursor’s planned GitHub competitor, or Cursor/Grok, that’s a lot of the developer mindshare. Granted, there’s a lot of competition in all of these spaces except for maybe Twitter, so it might not happen. But there’s a chance! And that possibility is fairly concerning.
    by hardwaregeek
  • I'm really hoping for Linear to expand and build their own Git-hosting+stacked-PR offering.
    by bilalq
  • Elon is still all in on replacing programmers. He listens to always the same stupid booster accounts (XFreeze etc.).

    Good that there is now an administration that creates jobs, does not engage in foreign wars and has ended the Ukraine war in 24 hours.

    by q3qahg
  • I'm skeptical of this deal. Cursor led the way on agentic coding, but Claude Code and Codex have replaced it. [I use Codex for everything now.]

    Still, I'm hearing that Grok 4.6 is almost as good at coding as Codex, but lots cheaper. [My network is also down on Claude--Opus 5 seems like a regression.]

    The optimistic scenario would be Grok being a fast-follower with cheaper rates, and staying ahead of open source models. If they can pull that off, and convince enough developers, then maybe they've got a chance.

    But $60B seems insane to me. What's Cursor's market share relative to Codex and Claude Code? If it's not meaningful, then it's $60B for an acquihire.

    by GMoromisato
  • Using grok at work and gpt at home, it's not better. Must be Elon fanboys and bots. It's what Elon does best. Subpar products with guerilla marketing campaigns.
    by bakies
  • 60 billion to drum up excitement as an acquisition into an overvalued megacorp that can now be dressed up as "AI". It's just numbers gaming, nothing to do with actual value.
    by smrtinsert
  • SpaceX bought the revenue and customer relationship to pump the numbers before the IPO. They have a lot of wasted computing so cursor revenue is kinda "profit" as the cost is already paid.

    And it was only a great deal because they probably paid with the hugely over-valuated stocks.

    by brazukadev
  • 60B in all stock. So basically “free” assuming cursor leadership believes Elons feverdreams.

    I wonder how long until Elon makes everyone believe he founded Cursor.

    by interactivecode
  • It seems like a data/roadmap acquisition. Reports have been that Cursor's footprint was still growing rapidly, and their composer model wasn't bad.

    Take that data / training recipe and scale it up with compute to see what happens?

    by lumost
  • Its 60B for a huge amount of RL coding data to become competitive in the space.
    by _menelaus
  • I remember the days of Cursor, like early 2025. Now I use Claude Code for everything.

    If the Cursor or its agent cli can offer their models as an enterprise offering (e.g even through AWS bedrock so all corporate compliance nonsense are met) there is a huge market they can capture.

    by sajithdilshan
  • Keep in mind while this is the date they officially became part of SpaceX, they have already been collaborating on building models together. So don't expect a significant bump in performance on new Grok models due to the additional data from Cursor--that bump already happened with Grok 4.5[1] and now 4.6.

    [1] https://cursor.com/blog/grok-4-5

    by imagent
  • There still may be Opus->Fable type bump when they finish training larger models. Remember, Grok 4.6 is still Opus-sized and they have larger models in training.
    by dimava