SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere for $60B

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/spacex-buy-anysphere-60-billion-2026-06-16/

64•itsmarcelg•1h ago

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mDyJzDPmBdG•1h ago

Wasn't that already announced few weeks ago, only with deal going through depending on Cursor future stock price?

dockerd•51m ago

That was future option, now they are purchasing it.

xiphias2•35m ago

They needed to raise money for the purchase, they just did it (raising from public market)

itsmarcelg•1h ago

These are the SEC filings that confirms the merger:

Announcement of Cursor acquisition to SpaceX

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026...

Details of Acquisition

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026...

roxolotl•32m ago

Wow they are using 80% of what they raised 4 days ago to buy an IDE. Absolutely incredible.

irjustin•22m ago

Unsure if you're serious, but if you are, they wouldn't buy with cash, at least not the vast majority of it.

blitzar•5m ago

Its an all stonks deal.

aenis•18m ago

Nope. They pay with the monopoly money, dilluting the shareholders.

bsenftner•13m ago

Money laundry

PUSH_AX•31m ago

In related news, I'm open to suggestions for coding agent harnesses.

mackenney•23m ago

Happy pi.dev user here, give it a try! I would say that's kind of the "vim experience" but for harnesses: has the minimum, if you want something more you extend it :)

mkj•15m ago

I'm wondering who's going to buy pi!

_pdp_•5m ago

Since you've asked, I am working on one but it is super early days so I am just posting it here for feedback.

https://zot.im

The idea is to make it fully autonomous so it is not really something that is meant to be constantly prompted and it is unlikely to fit most workflows but the idea is to make something that fits the future - not the present.

tomwphillips•24m ago

Definitely not a bubble.

wmeredith•17m ago

"SpaceX told investors during the IPO process that it sees an addressable market for AI products worth $26 trillion, roughly equivalent to U.S. GDP."

This is unhinged.

re-thc•15m ago

> sees an addressable market for AI products

Well if you start adding AI powered to "everything" then it is possible.

Soon you'll have AI face cream and AI donuts.

emsign•14m ago

Marks believe anything the con tells them as long as it's promising big money ROI.

Aeolun•4m ago

> This is unhinged.

Just like the investors :D

aenis•17m ago

Out of curiosity, anyone here still using cursor?

AndreyK1984•13m ago

good enough for simple tasks.

blitzar•6m ago

Co-Pilot -> Cursor -> Claude Code.

I think my relationship with cursor was the shortest of all.

dolkycape•16m ago

That's a lot of money for a buggy product that is at best slightly better than its competitors.

transitKnox•15m ago

Well that's a lot of money. They must see this as a distribution pipeline for Grok?

tippa123•15m ago

Not sure how this closes the gap to Anthropic and OpenAI for xAI. Is there a play that I am overlooking?

If this acquisition goes through the only winner here is Cursor, especially since CC and Codex are chipping away at Cursor very hard!

tptacek•11m ago

For what it's worth, this was effectively announced months ago, and at this valuation.

TrackerFF•11m ago

Congrats to the founders, arguably the first true AI-wrapper billionaires? 0 to multigenerational wealth in 4 years is impressive. It is crazy how much more wealth per user that can be created in the AI-space, compared to other products.

barredo•11m ago

>> SpaceX told investors during the IPO process that it sees an addressable market for AI products worth $26 trillion, roughly equivalent to U.S. GDP.

I very much can imagine a future documentary in a few years. With the host asking the audience: "Where were the signs?"

thm•9m ago

That’s two zeros too many.

tippa123•3m ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855293 Initial announcement back in April

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