The agentic code editor said on 14 August the acquisition is complete. Cursor's line: the largest fleet of GPUs in the world, stronger models at lower cost. The price is not in their announcement.
- On 14 August Cursor announced it has officially been acquired by SpaceX; the process began in April with a model-training partnership.
- Cursor gets access to 'the largest fleet of GPUs in the world' - SpaceXAI's Colossus - and promises more capable models at lower cost.
- Grok 4.6, released on 12 August together with SpaceXAI, is the first result: $2/$6 per million tokens, available in Cursor and Grok Build.
On 14 August Cursor said the acquisition is complete and that it now has the largest fleet of GPUs in the world. Boil the news down to one sentence: who holds the power just changed.
Look at what happened in four months. April: 'we are partnering for compute'. August: 'we are now part of them'. In between - one model, built together. This is not the purchase of an editor. It is the purchase of the place where the model becomes useful - and of the data from tens of thousands of teams using it every day.
What matters to me is something else. Cursor was the independent one - the one that swapped models underneath like light bulbs and told you 'use whichever you want'. From now on it has its own model and its own owner with a fleet. Will it keep offering other people's models on equal footing with its own? Cursor promises the same work. I will be watching what happens to the model picker in three months.
If you build on Cursor: nothing breaks today. But write down which model you use and why - so you don't find out tomorrow that the choice was made for you.