SpaceX’s AI Strategy Ahead of IPO 4/22/26
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | ahead of its IPO, SpaceX looking to make some big investments in Enterprise AI. |
| 0:04.9 | Kate Rooney has that in today's tech check. Kate. |
| 0:08.7 | Hey, David, so SpaceX really started as a rocket and satellite company. |
| 0:12.7 | Its artificial intelligence side of the business, though, is getting a bulk of the headlines |
| 0:16.3 | and attention ahead of its IPO. |
| 0:18.1 | So Elon Musk's SpaceX did announce that it locked in the right to buy |
| 0:22.8 | cursor at $60 billion. You can think of this as essentially a call option. If it does not exercise |
| 0:28.4 | that option, SpaceX will pay $10 billion, they say, for the new partnership investors that I'm |
| 0:33.9 | talking to, telling me that is basically a breakup fee if it doesn't go through. The space company, though, merged with Musk's AI business. |
| 0:41.1 | You've remember XAI that was earlier this year, the deal to buy cursor signals a move into |
| 0:45.7 | AI coding. |
| 0:46.4 | That's where cursor's really gotten buzz and traction. |
| 0:49.4 | It's an increasingly competitive arena guys where Anthropic compete, you've got open AI. |
| 0:54.1 | They are really going at |
| 0:55.2 | that fiercely. XAI, from what I'm told, has been behind there. It does raise some questions |
| 0:59.9 | about priorities as XAI. I'm told from investors is mid-roadshow right now. They're meeting |
| 1:05.4 | with potential investors in Austin. This deal does raise some questions about spending debt, |
| 1:10.7 | focus for this company. |
| 1:11.9 | Then you had Reuters reporting that Musk is walking back some of his data center in space |
| 1:16.7 | ambitions. |
| 1:17.6 | So reportedly saying in the S-1 that orbital data centers involve, quote, significant technical complexity and may not be commercially viable. |
| 1:25.7 | On the startup side, though, when we talk about Cursor, |
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