Musk's SpaceX buys AI coding start-up for $60bn days after IPO

Musk's SpaceX buys AI coding start-up for $60bn days after IPOJust nowShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleArchie MitchellBusiness reporterReutersSpaceX has agreed to buy AI coding start-up Cursor for $60bn (£45bn) just days after its bumper initial public offering (IPO).Elon Musk's rocket company will take over Anysphere, which makes the artificial intelligence coding agent.The move comes after SpaceX joined New York's tech-focused Nasdaq stock exchange on Friday in the biggest ever listing, valuing it at more than $2tn and raising $85.7bn.The companies have been partners since April, when SpaceX announced it had the right to either buy it for $60bn, or pay $10bn for the work they have done together.Like OpenAI and Anthropic, Cursor's technology uses AI to automate the process of writing code, one of the most prominent current uses for artificial intelligence.Its tie-up with SpaceX comes as Musk's company tries to catch up with rivals by growing its AI business, xAI, which is behind the controversial Grok chatbot.Announcing the partnership in April, SpaceX said: "The combination of Cursor's leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX's million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world's most useful models."Cursor is used by major companies including Stripe, Adobe and Nvidia, whose boss Jensen Huang has described it as his "favourite enterprise AI service".SpaceX said the deal would be completed by the end of September, with Cursor's shareholders paid with $60bn worth of SpaceX shares.Elon Musk's stratospheric rise to trillionaire status - in chartsSpaceX IPO raised $10bn more than thoughtSpaceX's shares have soared by almost 50% from their $135 offer price, including a bumper first full day on the public markets.The company's listing also made Musk the world's first trillionaire, sparking a debate about inequality a...