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By: Oliver Hawthorne
The entire tech industry is missing the big story here. Musk just bought a $60 billion AI startup for nearly nothing. This isn’t a one-off personal flex. It rewrites the entire rulebook for M&A. Rivals that aren’t public yet can’t match this speed. No ordinary large-cap board can approve this that fast. No traditional balance sheet can absorb this without blinking. That’s why everyone in Silicon Valley is quietly panicking right now.
SpaceX closed its IPO less than four full trading days ago. It opened at $135 per share on June 12. It closed Monday at $192.46. Its current market cap sits at $2.51 trillion. That’s a $740 billion jump from its original IPO valuation. It raised $86.2 billion total after exercising its greenshoe option. This is the largest IPO in history. The $60 billion Cursor acquisition is all stock. It makes up less than a tenth of the four-day gain. The entire purchase price was covered in just a few hours of first-day trading. Musk controls nearly all voting power via dual-class structure. That removes every bit of board approval friction. Cursor hit $4 billion in annual revenue this year. 67% of Fortune 500 developers use its AI coding tools. It generates 150 million lines of enterprise code every day. All that data will feed directly into Grok’s training pipeline.
This deal is a win for both sides. Three months ago, Silicon Valley was writing Cursor off. Its 25-year-old CEO is now one of the youngest billionaires in history. For Musk, it checks two core boxes. It locks up the fastest growing enterprise AI asset before rivals can grab it. It fixes a key gap in SpaceX’s Grok AI strategy, which has lagged peers. OpenAI and Anthropic have already filed for their own IPOs. Until they list and get their own premium currency, Musk holds all the advantage. He can keep buying top AI assets with appreciating stock, and never touch his massive cash war chest. The entire advantage disappears the moment SpaceX’s stock stops climbing.
Author bio: Oliver Hawthorne, Principal Correspondent covering Big Tech and AI capital markets for a leading international technology review.
