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Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.\nSpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next.\nENGINEERING MANAGER, AGENT & PRODUCT SECURITY\nCursor's agents work inside the codebases of some of the most security-conscious engineering organizations in the world, holding credentials, reading untrusted content, running tools, and shipping changes. Today they act on authority delegated per task. Where we're headed, they'll work more like coworkers: autonomous over long horizons, holding standing responsibilities, initiating work, and collaborating with people and other agents. 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