SpaceX and Cursor Have Explored an AI Team-up With Mistral
Business Insider • • business
Key Points:
- Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI, is actively pursuing partnerships with French AI startup Mistral and AI coding startup Cursor to compete with leading AI firms Anthropic and OpenAI.
- SpaceX, which owns xAI, recently secured a deal giving it the option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion, with Cursor reportedly training its AI model on xAI's infrastructure.
- xAI has rapidly expanded its data center capacity, aiming to grow from 200,000 to 1 million Nvidia GPUs, while working to improve model performance and scale its AI capabilities.
- Musk has expressed concerns internally about xAI falling behind competitors like Anthropic, which has blocked xAI's access to its AI models, and has publicly criticized Anthropic's AI as "misanthropic and evil."
- Musk, a co-founder of OpenAI, is currently suing the company over its shift away from its original nonprofit mission and positions xAI as an alternative to what he calls "woke" AI.
