American Space Exploration Technology Company Plans to Make a Major Acquisition of an AI Programming Platform

American entrepreneur Elon Musk’s U.S. space exploration technologies company recently said it has reached an agreement with the artificial intelligence (AI) programming platform—the “Cursor” code editor (Cursor) company—to acquire Cursor for $60 billion later this year or pay $10 billion as a cooperation fee.

On the 21st, the space exploration technologies company posted on the social media platform X that it is working closely with Cursor to advance the development of programming AI and knowledge-based AI. Cursor has leading products and distribution channels aimed at professional software engineers, while the space exploration technologies company has the “Giant” supercomputer with computing power equivalent to millions of H100 chips; the strong combination of the two will help enhance model capabilities.

On the same day, Cursor said it is working with the space exploration technologies company to accelerate model training. The company rolled out its first intelligent agent programming model about 6 months ago and has continued to optimize performance. Previously, due to limited computing power, model training was subject to certain constraints; in the future, it will leverage the space exploration technologies company’s supercomputing resources to further improve model capabilities. (Xinhua News Agency)