SpaceX (SPCX) confirmed on Tuesday that it will acquire Anysphere, the company behind the AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion.
In a filing, SpaceX confirmed the deal will be an all-stock transaction, with the company expecting the acquisition to close during the third quarter, pending regulatory approvals.
The agreement follows an option SpaceX secured in April of this year, which gave it the right to either pay roughly $10 billion for a partnership with Cursor or acquire the company for $60 billion later in the year.
SpaceX stock popped in early trade, poised for three straight days of gains since its IPO.
Cursor’s business has scaled rapidly since its founding in 2022, with roughly $2.6 billion in annualized revenue and enterprise sales rising, per Reuters. In April, the company had been in talks to raise new funding at a valuation of roughly $50 billion.
Cursor is an AI-powered code editor designed to accelerate software development. It includes a chatbot assistant, code autocomplete, and AI agents capable of handling coding tasks independently, among other capabilities.
SpaceX sees the acquisition as part of an effort to expand in the enterprise AI market. The deal follows SpaceX’s monster IPO last week, which raised more than $80 billion and valued the company at more than $2 trillion.
“SpaceX appears to be following a pattern we’ve already seen at Tesla with vertical integration. AI also requires the infrastructure to support it, including energy, data centers, and connectivity, all of which tie directly to SpaceX’s broader goals,” said Bret Greenstein, tech consulting firm West Monroe’s Chief AI Officer. “This level of vertical integration could become a major competitive advantage as AI advances.”
Despite the all-stock deal, SpaceX stock rose again on Tuesday, extending gains since the IPO. Also boosting the shares could be the fact that stock options on SpaceX are also set to begin trading on Tuesday, marking the first time investors can trade derivatives on the newly public stock.
Pras Subramanian is Lead Transportation Reporter for Yahoo Finance. You can follow him on X and on Instagram.
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