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OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk
OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. It still walked away after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the AI coding startup.
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OpenAI announced it would end its partnership with Cursor, the AI coding‑tool startup, in a late‑night blog post. The company said it could not trust Elon Musk after SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition of Cursor. The move meant OpenAI lost one of its largest customers. Cursor had been paying OpenAI for access to its models and was among the firm’s top five revenue‑generating clients at the start of 2026. By spring, the partnership was projected to bring more than $1 billion in annualized revenue to OpenAI.
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