Why SpaceX's Cursor AI Partnership Is Genius

SpaceX announced a $10B partnership with Cursor AI, and a $60B option to buy the company outright. This caught a ton of people by surprise (including myself) when it was announced. But upon further investigation, this could end up bring a brilliant move. SpaceX / XAI gets to use the excess compute of it's Colossus datacenter and immediately is in the race with Anthropic's Claude (and even OpenAI's CODEX) for the best AI coding agent. Coming just months before the SpaceX IPO, this could boost excitement around the deal, if SpaceX/XAI has a new enterprise coding AI revenue stream that's exploding ... Reports indicate Cursor is already at a $2B revenue run-rate and growing rapidly. That would be ~10% of SpaceX's revenue, and could significantly accelerate revenue growth projections. What are your thoughts on the deal??? My X: / gfilche HyperChange Patreon :) / hyperchange Disclaimer: I'm long SpaceX/XAI, nothing in this show is financial advice.

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