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Cursor's war chest, xAI's redemption
Cursor is the most operationally successful software company of the AI era. Its founders looked at the path to $100 billion and decided they weren't willing to underwrite it. They sold to xAI for $60 billion in a deal considered to be good for everyone. The deal gives xAI an application surface to put in front of public market investors before the SpaceX IPO, and it gives Cursor a sponsor with compute and a non-competing model lab.
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