SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere for $60B

Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f... by ballon_monkey on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @05:18PM (#48562266)

"my company doesn't use it so no one uses it" - typical out of touch HN commenter.

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Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f... by bjelkeman-again on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @06:09PM (#48562869)

Seriously though. I haven’t heard anyone use Grok in software engineering context. Maybe I live under a rock.

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Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f... by youre-wrong3 on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @05:42AM (#48567979)

There are more uses to AI than just software engineering…

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Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f... by pqtyw on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @03:15PM (#48575354)

So far seems like none of those use cases have generated meaningful income streams? The consumer/non-developer market is mostly dominated by OpenAI and Google anyway...

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Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f... by mthoms on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @05:58PM (#48562728)

Given that Grok is selling all of the compute capacity from its flagship data centre out to a direct competitor sorta speaks for itself.

Does it mean they are out of the race? I have no idea, but things don't look great.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037986

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Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f... by rtehfm on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @06:52PM (#48563387)

They're only selling compute from Colossus 1.

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Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f... by scheme271 on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @07:57PM (#48563992)

There's a HN article and discussion about Anthropic expanding to use Colossus 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214017 I think it's fairly clear that grok isn't using as much compute as expected.

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