OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk
THE SO WHAT
Walking away from a projected $1B-a-year Cursor partnership after its acquisition by SpaceX shows that strategic control and counterparty risk can trump near-term AI revenue. If you’re building on or partnering with major labs, assume relationship and governance constraints can change your economics overnight—diversify dependencies.
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