Five days after buying Cursor for $60bn, SpaceX tried to buy Cognition
SpaceX approached AI coding startup Cognition about an acquisition, Bloomberg reports, and Cognition did not engage. Chief executive Scott Wu replied publicly that his company is “not for sale and we haven’t been talking.”
SpaceX approached the AI coding company Cognition about buying it, according to Bloomberg, and Cognition did not engage. It would have been the company’s second large AI takeover in a matter of months.
The denial arrived the same day and went further than the report. Chief executive Scott Wu wrote publicly that Cognition is “not for sale and we haven’t been talking.”
Those two accounts are close but not identical. Bloomberg describes an approach that was not taken up, alongside continuing discussions about working together, including a possible arrangement for Cognition to use SpaceX’s computing capacity.
Cognition is not cheap either way. It raised $1bn at a $26bn valuation in May...
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