By Christine Ji and William Gavin
Written off after the rise of Anthropic's Claude Code, Cursor now looks to reclaim its crown as a vibe-coding heavyweight with SpaceX's backing
SpaceX and Cursor have been jointly training a new AI model utilizing SpaceX's Colossus supercomputer cluster.
Cursor had a rough start to 2026.
The AI coding startup once garnered lavish praise for its explosive revenue growth. When prominent AI researcher Andrej Karpathy coined the term "vibe coding" in early 2025, he gave an explicit shoutout to Cursor. But faced with a barrage of AI coding agents hitting the market - most prominently, Anthropic's Claude Code - Cursor CEO Michael Truell called an emergency all-hands meeting in January.
