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SpaceX, Cursor and OpenAI
From the $60 billion acquisition in August to the termination of OpenAI model access: the Cursor dispute between SpaceX and OpenAI, tracked over time.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the AI coding tool Cursor for $60 billion in mid-August 2026, folding it into its SpaceXAI division. Two weeks later, OpenAI terminated its model supply contract with Cursor by invoking a change-of-control clause – from November 12, 2026, GPT models will no longer be available inside the editor.
The strand shows how the long-running rivalry between Elon Musk and OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman spills over into a concrete product, and how Anthropic is trying to fill the resulting gap with additional computing capacity for Claude in Cursor.