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.

SpaceX and Cursor had agreed to a deal earlier this year that gave the rocket company an option to buy the AI firm.

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.