OpenAI Dumped Billion-Dollar Customer Cursor Partly to Avoid Ties to Elon Musk, Wired Reports
wiredmagazine · reddit · 2026-09-04
Wired reports OpenAI cut ties with Cursor (Anysphere), a customer contributing roughly $1 billion a year in revenue, in part because the business entangled OpenAI with Elon Musk. The story reveals how frontier labs weigh customer scale against corporate and competitive relationships: Cursor was one of OpenAI's largest customers, yet OpenAI chose to walk away from the nine-figure-plus business for strategic reasons.
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