SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60B; Origin & New AI Model Unveiled

A major acquisition in the tech world has just been announced. SpaceX is acquiring Anysphere, the parent company of AI coding firm Cursor, for $60 billion in an all-stock deal. This marks the largest acquisition of a venture-backed startup on record. At its Compile conference, Cursor also unveiled three new products. These include Origin, a git hosting platform designed for AI agents, and Cursor Mobile, an iOS beta for managing these agents. What's interesting is Cursor is also training a new 1.5-trillion-parameter model on SpaceX's Colossus supercomputer. Origin aims to change how code is stored. It's built for AI agents, not just human developers. Legacy git hosts like GitHub were not designed for the speed and scale of AI agents. Origin can handle thousands of agents working simultaneously. Its architecture uses NVMe-backed git file servers and S3 for storage. The platform also features automated merge conflict resolution, which is crucial for AI teams. This means AI can resolve competing changes to the same file automatically. The bottom line is Cursor is moving towards vertical integration, which could significantly impact developers who rely on its tools.