# Michael Truell's AI coding tool joins SpaceX

> The 26-year-old founder of Anysphere sold his AI software company to Elon Musk for a record-breaking sum.
- Title: Michael Truell's AI coding tool joins SpaceX · TIME | Shortify
- Summary: The 26-year-old founder of Anysphere sold his AI software company to Elon Musk for a record-breaking sum. Anysphere, which makes Cursor, an AI tool for…
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- Source: TIME — https://time.com/collection/time100-next/2026/michael-truell
- Published: 2026-09-30T11:02:19.043+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: michael truell, anysphere, cursor, spacex, elon musk, ai, software development, acquisition
## The vision behind Cursor
Michael Truell, co-founder of Anysphere, predicted in twenty twenty-two that AI models would eventually write all code in the world.

> get to a place where all of the code in the world was going to be written by [AI] models
## Cursor's rapid growth
Anysphere created Cursor, a tool for automating software development. By June, the company's annualized revenue reached four billion dollars, double the February figure.
## SpaceX acquires Anysphere
In August, Elon Musk's SpaceX acquired Anysphere for sixty billion dollars, a record-breaking sum for the industry.
## Truell's age and competition
Truell, twenty-six, has watched Cursor's competitive landscape shift from coding startups to frontier giants like OpenAI and Anthropic with vast resources.
## Computing power and the path forward
The SpaceX deal grants Anysphere access to huge computing power needed for training frontier models. Truell said scale-up should let Cursor reach the frontier and hopefully soon leapfrog it.

> and hopefully, soon leapfrog it
## Key takeaway

Anysphere, which makes Cursor, an AI tool for automating software development, was acquired by SpaceX for sixty billion dollars, a record sum.