SpaceXAI (formerly xAI)

Scale compute (Colossus, a reported million-H100-equivalent cluster; orbital data centers cited as the merger's main goal) and pair Grok with Cursor's coding product to build the most useful coding and knowledge-work agents.

Founded: July 2023
Headquarters: Memphis, TN (Colossus) and Palo Alto, CA
Founders: Elon Musk
Now: Renamed SpaceXAI (2026-05). Over 50 researchers left after the merger, including most co-founders; pre-training team down to a handful (The Information, via TechCrunch). Cursor acquisition for $60B closed 2026-08-14.

Key people

Elon Musk
Michael Nicolls (president, since 2026-04, reported)

Funding

7 October 2026 reported
Amount
$40 billion, reported and not yet confirmed
Lead
Apollo Global Management
Source theinformation.com
2 February 2026
Amount
All-stock acquisition by SpaceX
Valuation
xAI $250B; combined SpaceX-xAI $1.25T
Lead
SpaceX
Source cnbc.com

Every funding round in the atlas

Latest launches

Grok 4.7 xAI · 21 September 2026
Grok 4.7, xAI's current flagship, ships a month after 4.6 at the same $2/$6 price with a 500K context and xhigh reasoning effort.
SpaceX completes Cursor acquisition SpaceX / Anysphere (Cursor) · 14 August 2026
SpaceX closes the $60B Anysphere deal; Cursor becomes a wholly owned subsidiary inside the new SpaceXAI unit, and Grok 4.6 ships in Cursor.
Grok 4.6 xAI · 12 August 2026
Grok 4.6, tuned for long-running agents, scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, level with GPT-5.6 Sol, at unchanged $2/$6 pricing.
Grok 4.5 xAI · 8 July 2026
Grok 4.5, trained with Cursor, targets coding and agents. It scores 64.7% on SWE-Bench Pro and 83.3% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, at $2/$6 per million tokens.
grok-imagine-video-1.5 xAI · July 2026
Grok Imagine video 1.5 supports text, image and reference-to-video with native 1080p, priced at $0.08 per second in the API.
SpaceX agrees to buy Cursor for $60B SpaceX / Anysphere (Cursor) · 16 June 2026
SpaceX exercises its option and signs an all-stock definitive agreement to acquire Anysphere for $60B, the largest startup acquisition on record.
Grok 4.3 xAI · 30 April 2026
Grok 4.3 adds native video input and a 1M context while cutting API price to $1.25/$2.50 per million tokens.
SpaceX-Cursor partnership and $60B option SpaceX / Anysphere (Cursor) · 21 April 2026
SpaceX announces a Cursor partnership with an option to buy it for $60B later in 2026, or pay $10B for the joint work.

Launches by year

28 launches and papers since 4 November 2023, oldest first within each year.

People moves

Of the moves the atlas tracks, 0 joined and 9 left.

Ross Nordeen 6 May 2026
xAI to Anthropic
Founding member of xAI; ex-Tesla
Ross Nordeen 27 March 2026
xAI to unknown
xAI co-founder; Musk's right-hand operator
Manuel Kroiss 25 March 2026
xAI to unknown
xAI co-founder; led pretraining
Guodong Zhang 12 March 2026
xAI to unknown
xAI co-founder; head of Grok Imagine and Grok Code
Zihang Dai March 2026
xAI to unknown
xAI co-founder; member of technical staff
Jimmy Ba 10 February 2026
xAI to unknown
xAI co-founder; University of Toronto professor
Tony (Yuhuai) Wu 9 February 2026
xAI to unknown
xAI co-founder; led reasoning
Toby Pohlen February 2026
xAI to unknown
xAI co-founder
Greg Yang January 2026
xAI to unknown
xAI co-founder

Sources

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