Cognition CEO Scott Wu pushed back on a Bloomberg report that SpaceX attempted to acquire the AI coding startup, writing on X that the story was inaccurate and that Cognition "is not for sale." Wu added that the two companies haven't been in talks.
The denial came shortly after the report published, which claimed Elon Musk's SpaceX sought to bring Cognition into its AI push as it works to catch up with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. The reported acquisition attempt followed SpaceX's $60 billion purchase of Cursor, another AI coding startup, whose deal closed last week.
Cursor and SpaceX had already been working together before that acquisition, and this month jointly released Grok 4.6, a model designed for coding and complex multi-step agentic tasks.
Cognition's coding agent Devin serves an enterprise customer base that includes Mercedes-Benz, Citi, and Goldman Sachs. The report stated that deal talks are no longer active but that the companies are still discussing working together, potentially with Cognition using SpaceX's computing capacity, a point Wu did not address in his denial.
SpaceX and Cognition did not respond to requests for comment.
