SpaceX is buying Cursor maker Anysphere for $60 billion in stock, handing xAI the enterprise product it lacked. Here is why the deal happened, why Cursor sold, and the cap-table and model conflicts hiding inside it.

Analysts differ on the likely impact, some arguing that the deal gives Cursor the compute expansion it needs, while others worry that Cursor’s trustworthiness could be threatened.

SpaceX exercised its option to buy Cursor for $60 billion in all stock, the largest startup acquisition ever, arming xAI and Grok against rivals Anthropic and OpenAI.