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SpaceX Spent $60 Billion on a Code Editor. The AI Flywheel Behind It Makes the Price Look Cheap.

How Cursor’s coding data, Colossus GPU power, and a $1.25B monthly Anthropic deal turned SpaceXAI into a frontier lab in five months.

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Novy Baf
Aug 20, 2026
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Source: SpaceX

A few months ago, if you’d told me Elon Musk’s AI model would sit at the same benchmark level as GPT and Claude, I would have laughed. Grok was the chatbot you got for free on X and forgot about. It was clever in a way that felt like a party trick and useless in a way that felt permanent. If you were doing proper work, you used Claude Code…

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