OpenAI Walked Away From Billion-Dollar Customer Cursor to Avoid Elon Musk
OpenAI severed its lucrative partnership with AI coding editor Cursor because of concerns involving Elon Musk and SpaceX.
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September 2026
August 2026
SpaceX Completes Acquisition of AI Coding Startup Cursor
SpaceX has officially finalized its acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor following a previous $60 billion purchase option.
March 2026
Cursor Confirms Its New Composer 2 Model Is Built on Moonshot AI's Kimi
Cursor's new Composer 2 model turns out to be built on Chinese AI lab Moonshot's open-source Kimi 2.5. The $29B company admitted it should have credited the base model from the start.
