Elon Musk breaks silence on OpenAI cutting 3-year-old deal with Cursor
Cursor was founded in 2022.
Elon Musk has responded after OpenAI said it is ending its partnership with Cursor, a coding tool recently acquired by Musk’s SpaceX. In an X (formerly Twitter) post, Musk appeared unfazed by the decision, saying he “couldn’t care less” and launching a fresh attack on Altman and OpenAI President Greg Brockman, calling them untrustworthy. Musk had sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman for “stealing a charity” by betraying the company’s original nonprofit mission. Under oath earlier this year, Musk admitted(opens in a new window) that xAI, now also part of SpaceX, had violated OpenAI’s terms of service (terms which are similar to xAI’s own),” OpenAI said in an announcement.
The move ends a partnership that had been in place for around three years and adds a new chapter to the long-running dispute between Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. “I couldn’t care less. Scam Altman and Greg Stockman are utterly untrustworthy assholes who stole an open source nonprofit,” Musk wrote in the post. It was recently acquired by Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX.
“Today, we notified SpaceX that we intend to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026. Because we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our experience with Elon Musk’s companies violating contracts, we are making this choice. To maximize the time that developers can retain access to our models through Cursor, we are giving the maximum notice provided by our contract. This decision was incredibly tough, as we care deeply about our models being broadly available for developers. We’ve worked with Cursor for nearly four years and have enormous respect for their team, their product, and what they’ve built for the developer community. We know that the people most affected by this decision are the developers who rely on OpenAI models in Cursor. We care about their experience in this transition and we’re ready to go above and beyond to support them.”
‘Cursor was one of the very first users of OpenAI’
“Cursor was one of the very first users of OpenAI, we’ve worked closely with their team for years, and we’ve trusted their platform to be neutral infrastructure for our business.”