New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- OpenAI, the leading Artificial intelligence company, on Friday announced that it will end its partnership with Cursor. This development followed SpaceX acquisition of the AI-coding agent, signaling further escalation of the bitter rivalry between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX founder Elon Musk. The ChatGPT maker blamed trust issues for winding down their contract and said that it was not confident that SpaceX would use its technology "within our terms of service."

With a proposed shutoff date of 12 November, Cursor received 76 days of notice following which its direct model access will be withdrawn. The deal between Elon Musk's SpaceX and the coding-tool company triggered a contract clause allowing OpenAI to with...