OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk
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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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