SpaceX

Signals

Funding history

• Undisclosed Other announced 1 Sep 2026 coverage →

  Andreessen Horowitz

• Elon Musk Founder, CEO & CTO
• Gwynne Shotwell President & COO
• Bret Johnsen CFO
• Donald Harrison Board Member
• Antonio Gracias Board Member
• Barry Schuler Board Advisor
• Kimbal Musk Board Member
• Luke Nosek Board Member
• Steve Jurvetson Board Member
• Roelof Botha Independent Director

Latest developments

2026

◆ OpenAI delayed its planned IPO to 2027 or later after CEO Sam Altman cited ongoing AI safety and alignment concerns Funding

◆ SpaceX acquires Anysphere Acquisition

◆ Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned and publicly warned that advanced “self-improving” AI could pose existential risk Executive move

◆ Cognition raises a $2 billion Series E at a $48 billion valuation for its AI coding agent Devin Funding

◆ Crypto traders and secondary-market buyers priced Anthropic’s pre-IPO equity at much higher implied valuations than the company’s most recent reported Series H amount Other

◆ SpaceX and Vera Rubin NVL72 announce a partnership Partnership

◆ OpenAI plans to wind down Cursor’s contract supplying OpenAI models after SpaceX’s acquisition of Cursor Deployment

◆ SpaceX acquired Cursor for about $60 billion Acquisition

◆ Anthropic prepared IPO filings and pitched investors on a very large total addressable market, targeting a valuation around $2 trillion and potential fundraising up to about $100 billion Funding

◆ Starcloud raises a $250 million extension to build and launch AI inference satellites and in-orbit data center capacity Funding

◆ Cursor launches Origin, a cloud-based Git-compatible code hosting service integrated with the Cursor desktop and command-line tools Product launch

◆ Anthropic reported a sharp increase in quarterly revenue and reached an annualized revenue run rate of about $65 billion ahead of its planned IPO Other

◆ SEC accuses Spaventa Group of running a boiler-room style scheme selling private AI company shares, raising $74 million from investors Legal action

◆ SpaceX officially completes its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor Acquisition

◆ Anthropic reported experiments where multiple Claude AI agents with conflicting goals sabotaged each other while performing the same programming task Research publication

◆ Investors reportedly expect Anthropic to pursue an October IPO valuing the company at $2 trillion or more Funding

◆ xAI releases Grok 4.6, a new model for long-running AI agents and more ambitious interactive and visual work Model release

◆ SpaceX acquires xAI Acquisition

◆ Anthropic signs $10 billion compute deal with Volta; Volta raises $300 million at $2.4 billion valuation Funding

◆ SpaceX reports first quarterly earnings with strong revenue growth but massive AI infrastructure spending sparks investor selloff Deployment

• 16 Sep Elon Musk: test labs’ models against each other as a practical alternative to a universal pause
• 14 Sep Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?
• 14 Sep Anthropic’s Nasdaq IPO could rival SpaceX as Claude revenue races past $65B
• 9 Sep Cognition Raises $2 Billion at a $48 Billion Valuation, Closing In on Cursor
• 8 Sep Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market
• 1 Sep Anthropic: Crypto Investors Are Willing to Pay a Valuation of Nearly $2 Trillion
• 1 Sep a16z expands Growth fund to $8.5B after backing Databricks, OpenAI, SpaceX and others
• 31 Aug SpaceX is in an “enviable position”: why Anthropic is sticking with Cursor as OpenAI cuts access
• 31 Aug SpaceX designed an orbital Vera Rubin. Radiation comes next.
• 30 Aug OpenAI leaving Cursor: “Developers have to be prepared to adapt when it happens.”
• 30 Aug Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem
• 29 Aug OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor’s Access Its AI Models In Fear of AI Distillation
• 29 Aug [AINews] OpenAI shuts off Cursor
• 28 Aug Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
• 27 Aug David Tisch has always been a collector. His firm’s biggest prize is a $1 billion return on Cursor
• 26 Aug How David Tisch's BoxGroup turned a $750K bet on Cursor into a $1 billion exit by breaking all the VC rules
• 26 Aug 😺 Anthropic's $30 Trillion Market Claim
• 26 Aug Anthropic Will Pitch Its IPO With a Market the Size of U.S. GDP
• 26 Aug “Stop SpaceX”: Warum sich in Louisiana Widerstand gegen Musks Raumhafen formiert
• 24 Aug 😺 Anthropic's IPO could top SpaceX's record
• 21 Aug Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up
• 20 Aug Report: Anthropic hopes to surpass SpaceX’s record IPO raise when it finally floats
• 20 Aug SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste
• 19 Aug Cognition CEO denies report that SpaceX tried to acquire the startup
• 19 Aug Cursor Origin: SpaceX Attacks GitHub With a Code Platform at a Weak Moment
• 18 Aug “If GitHub was stable, these alternatives would not be as interesting”: Cursor launches Origin as GitHub goes dark
• 18 Aug AI gets its own "boiler room" scandal
• 18 Aug Cursor launches Origin code hosting service to compete with GitHub
• 17 Aug Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts
• 16 Aug 😺 Let's talk about that AI agent Turf War
• 16 Aug The Sequence Radar- Issue 915: Last Week in AI: The Cursor Acquisition, New Grok and GLM Models, Anthropic’s Latest Deal, and River AI
• 15 Aug Nvidia has $21 billion SpaceX stake, $30 billion in Intel shares
• 15 Aug Boiler room raised $74 million selling retirees SpaceX, Anduril, Anthropic, and Perplexity while reaping ‘massive hidden fees,’ SEC claims
• 15 Aug SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition
• 14 Aug Anthropic investors eye $2T IPO valuation after SpaceX’s record debut: Report
• 13 Aug Anthropic: Investors Expect IPO Valuation of $2 Trillion, More Than SpaceX
• 13 Aug 😺 Grok 4.6 is GPT 5.6 level and built for agents that don't quit
• 13 Aug [AINews] SpaceXAI Grok 4.6 and Grok @Bot
• 12 Aug Why space is actually a terrible place to cool a data center
• 10 Aug Everything’s bigger in Texas: Musk’s planned $16.8 billion chip factory is five times bigger than the world’s current largest building
• 9 Aug AI's new millionaires want to disrupt philanthropy. They should fund what already exists
• 7 Aug Tesla, SpaceX confirm 'Terafab' chip fab site — $16.8B first phase
• 6 Aug ‘Pure insanity’—Elon Musk details SpaceX’s plan to turn the moon into its newest manufacturing site
• 5 Aug SpaceX spooks investors with debut earnings report
• 5 Aug SpaceX's first-ever earnings show higher revenues and huge spending
• 4 Aug SpaceX stock falls 8% as first earnings beat is overshadowed by $18B capex
• 4 Aug SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year
• 4 Aug Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta
• 4 Aug SpaceX has more neocloud revenue
• 31 Jul SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year

Relationships

Investment & ownership

• Acquired Cursor · 12 sources
• Acquired Cursor · 4 sources
• Invests in Cursor · 2 sources
• Owns xAI · 2 sources
• Owns Cursor · 2 sources

Products & technology

• Develops Grok 4.5 · 3 sources
• Develops Starship · 2 sources
• Supplies xAI · 1 source
• Develops Starlink · 1 source
• Deploys Frontier · 1 source

People

• Elon Musk founded by this company · 2 sources

Partnerships

• OpenAI partnered with this company · 2 sources