Elon Musk is ramping up efforts to compete with AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI. Musk's AI startup, xAI, has held discussions in recent weeks with Mistral and AI coding startup Cursor about a potential three-way partnership, people familiar with the matter said. Mistral is a French AI startup that was founded in 2023 and has positioned itself as an independent alternative to US frontier labs. SpaceX, which owns xAI, announced a deal this week with Cursor that gives SpaceX the option to buy the