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Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?
- ▶ 1:08 Olivia Moore So only nine percent of consumers are paying for more than one out of the group of ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Cursor.
- ▶ 41:17 Anish Acharya I also think if you haven't tried, you know, GPT-Five-Two in Codex or in Cursor, it's worth trying. 2 times in the scene
How AI Will Transform Fintech In 2026
- ▶ 17:53 unnamed speaker You know, many of these institutions are beginning to adopt products like Cursor or, you know, even GitHub Copilot or a broader ecosystem of kind of AI products in their, in their employee base, and people are seeing the productivity gains.
The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
- ▶ 0:38 Russ Fraden Cursor has taken mediocre engineers and made them good, but it's taking amazing engineers and made them gods.
- ▶ 23:01 Russ Fraden Why aren't you spending any money with a cursor? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:54 Russ Fraden Uh, you know, cursor has taken mediocre engineers and made them good, but it's taking amazing engineers and made them gods, right? 2 times in the scene
How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning
- ▶ 14:13 Sherman Wu And, and then you see a lot of like, you know, more successful products like cursor, like do this directly, especially the coding products where users want more control.
- ▶ 16:05 Martin Casado So, so I, I use, I use Cursor and, um, a lot of, just for, like, a lot of stuff, like, like, writing blogs and, like, you know, you know, we're investors 3 times in the scene
Robinhood CEO: Making Everyone An Owner
- ▶ 36:30 Vlad Tenev It's the most critical because if you look at AI as a category, you have the fastest product adoption of any products in history with chat GPT and, and all these, you know, cursor and all that fastest revenue ramps.
Grant Lee: Building Gamma’s AI Presentation Company to 100 Million Users
Michael Truell: How Cursor Builds at the Speed of AI
- ▶ 0:09 Michael Truell I think that one of the key challenges facing the company in the future, and we've faced in the past, is we are in a market that's like, you know, had a iPod moment, and like, it's gonna have an iPhone moment.
- ▶ 0:53 Martin Casado Ok, so, ah, as everybody knows, Michael's CEO of Cursor. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:41 Martin Casado So, so I've got this theory, and it's, I don't know, I would actually like to hear your views on it, on why Cursor did so well early on, and it's actually pretty banal, which is, um, you know, at the time we were surveying the space, and… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:23 Martin Casado But apparently in that time, or so Oscar tells me, someone showed up at the cursor office and put an iPad on the window and says, cursor's down. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:14 Martin Casado And it's actually been hugely successful, not just with Curse, but across the board, and so I think it'd be great to hear how, how that's worked for you.
- ▶ 25:03 Martin Casado Cursor's disrupting software, which we all agree. 6 times in the scene
Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?
- ▶ 45:27 Amjad Masad Then I think cursor innovated on this 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:30 Amjad Masad Composer modality, which is, like, editing, like, large chunks of, uh, files, but that's it.
"Is there an AI bubble?” Gavin Baker and David George
- ▶ 18:14 Gavin Baker Like, why are none of the public coding companies even trying to compete with Cursor? 3 times in the scene
Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z
- ▶ 26:16 Jeetu Patel So far, we use largely a combination of Codex, Claude, and, um, and Cursor, some Winsurf.
- ▶ 30:29 Jeetu Patel So that would be something that I would, I would urge you on, and I think that intelligent routing layer of some sort that says, I'm going to use my models for these things, I'm going to probably use foundation models for other things, and…
Google DeepMind Developers: How Nano Banana Was Made
- ▶ 12:37 unnamed speaker I mean, today, if we use a cursor or so-called coding, it's not that it has a super
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
- ▶ 7:51 Anish Acharya I mean, how much do you think you've paid to cursor? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:06 Kevin Rose And then you can then take those components, download them, and then drop them into Cursor. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:39 Anish Acharya And then for really ambitious things, I use cursor, I use GPT-V codecs, um, both the model as well as the CLI.
How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 32:07 Martin Casado You know, for fun, I develop using Cursor. 2 times in the scene
Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- ▶ 22:29 Keith Rabois Cursor or Cognition and maybe others. 2 times in the scene
Is AI Slowing Down? Nathan Labenz Says We're Asking the Wrong Question
- ▶ 27:57 Nathan Labenz Maybe they took a little longer with Cursor than doing it on their own, but how much of the time was Cursor the active window, and how much of it was, you know, some other random distraction while they were waiting? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:19 Nathan Labenz I'm not spending nearly as much on my cursor subscription as I would be on a, you know, an actual human engineer. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:37 Nathan Labenz It's the same thing as with the cursor thing that we were talking about earlier, right?
Will LLMs Get Us To AGI?
- ▶ 45:42 Vishal Misra And yet anyone who has used, uh, these tools, whether it's cursor or whatever, cloud code, LLMs continue to hallucinate, continue to generate unreasonable code.
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 13:35 Aaron Levie Um, uh, you know, cursor being a, a super, super popular one internally.
- ▶ 25:18 Martin Casado Probably, you know, they're using cursor or some coding thing.
- ▶ 31:01 Aaron Levie Go to cursor to generate a prototype, do, do some kind of analysis, and then you have it back in 10 minutes or 20 minutes, and, and I've just compressed whatever the, whatever that was kind of then gonna be as a, you know, serially, uh,…
- ▶ 37:58 Erik Torenberg And, and of course there was Dylan Fields and Alexander Wang, but their companies took a few years to really, but, but now, you know, we're seeing the cursor founders, the more core founders sort of, you know, get to massive scale in a…
- ▶ 51:22 Aaron Levie If you wanted to be a new systems integrator, and your whole point is, is that we are a systems integrator, but we use cloud code, or we use cognition, or we use, you know, cursor to, to get the output, you will have such an advantage over…
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 12:19 Chris Dixon And you become kind of known and the cursor is known as the best, you know, best vibe coding platform or whatever.
- ▶ 13:04 Chris Dixon Um, and so the idea being, you know, your cursor, and then suddenly all of the, you know, it becomes popular, um, or, you know, mid journey, let's say, right?
- ▶ 21:09 Anish Acharya The means of production are sort of getting decentralized through these new tools like Replit and, you know, and, and others cursor. 2 times in the scene
Is Non-Consensus Investing Overrated?
- ▶ 18:45 Martin Casado I mean, AI, you know, there's, there's AI companies that clearly are raising, you know, speculative money where nobody even really understands the business model, and there's great companies that can't get invested, so we're seeing this…
Jack Altman & Martin Casado on the Future of Venture Capital
- ▶ 28:09 Martin Casado Uh, and you know, we, you know, you see this in, you know, in, in, in, in cursor and, and, and the whole thing. 2 times in the scene
Aaron Levie and Steven Sinofsky on the AI-Worker Future
- ▶ 9:29 Aaron Levie So, or cursor, or, you know, name your, your background agent writing code.
The State of AI: Growth, Fragmentation, and the Next Wave
- ▶ 12:33 Erik Torenberg Martin, let's double click on cursor a bit. 7 times in the scene
Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
- ▶ 8:32 Dylan Patel Like, cursor had to pull away the unlimited, um, Claude code, you know, initially they had, like, this super expensive plan, and it had, like, unlimited rates, and then they were only, like, a weekly rate limit, now they have, like,…
- ▶ 16:57 Dylan Patel Cloud code in, like, three months has surpassed them, and, like, cursor, you know, easily surpassed them, and then, like, even, like, companies like Replin or, like, and Windsurf slash Cognition are, like, gonna pass them, like, it's,… 2 times in the scene
Balaji Srinivasan: How AI Will Change Politics, War, and Money
- ▶ 50:37 Martin Casado Some products are very clearly for the casual user trying to replace like, you know, like think about like cursor versus lovable, right? 2 times in the scene
The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants
- ▶ 18:09 Matt Bornstein Cursor is probably our top developer tool company right now.
- ▶ 44:40 Martin Casado Seeing a bunch of, kind of, cursor, like, agent commits, and like, even, even in the last 24 hours, the Slack integration, seeing it come from Slack, and so I, I do think for, kind of, bite-sized, well articulate, tasks you can articulate…
Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption
- ▶ 4:23 Aaron Levie With the exception of a few of these pro-sumer categories, um, I'm, you know, I have talked to a large corporation, um, you know, CIOs that are seeing people just show up with Windsurf and Cursor and Replit.
- ▶ 12:27 Aaron Levie so, so business model will, will shift for some of the use cases, because even if you look at the cursors, replets, you know, windsurfs of the world, there does seem to be this baseline seat price, and then, and then your consumption usage…
- ▶ 33:38 Aaron Levie Engineering team, and, and probably for the price of five of those engineers or 10 of those engineers, you could probably pay for cursor licenses for the entire engineering team. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:34 Aaron Levie You're using cursor Windsor for whatever, and the agent is, is generating this chunk of, of an output, and then you're just reviewing it. 2 times in the scene
Giving New Life to Unstructured Data with LLMs and Agents
- ▶ 23:05 Anant Bhardwaj Pretty similar to Cursor, right? 2 times in the scene
Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software
- ▶ 10:46 Rick Rubin And then the following week, there's a company called Curser, which I don't really know what they do, but it seems to be something to do with coding.
- ▶ 54:53 Anjney Midha So with cursor, for example, early on, people would tell the, the, the composer mode, Hey, please go build me a website.
Who's Coding Now? - AI and the Future of Software Development
- ▶ 2:25 Matt Bornstein And I think companies like Cursor have just done a much better job with that now.
- ▶ 7:29 Guido Appenzeller GitHub Copilot and cursor that basically allows you to use autocomplete, which is a big step forward, right? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:29 Matt Bornstein Everybody does their first time they're, they're trying, you know, a, a website generator or, or, you know, cursor or something like that probably are not, you know, doing that much for the rest of humanity, right?
- ▶ 28:52 Matt Bornstein Um, I know the, uh, the guys at Cursor have always talked about kind of formal specifications, which, which I think you alluded to also. 2 times in the scene
What Is an AI Agent?
- ▶ 7:52 Guido Appenzeller There's, let's say, a cursor or something like that, which really emphasizes the tight loop between the user, the tight feedback loop between the user and the LLM and the thing I'm working on.
The Top 100 GenAI Products, Ranked and Explained
- ▶ 9:31 Olivia Moore Curser made the list. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:15 Olivia Moore I mean, I think the fact that the Vibe coding products, like the Bolt and the Cursors and Lovables,
Automating Developer Email with MCP and AI Agents
- ▶ 7:38 Yoko Li Like, I'm a huge fan of cursor, so I use it every single day.
- ▶ 13:31 Zeno Rocha He was just building all these prototypes using Cursor, using vZero, using these tools that are now available for folks.
- ▶ 22:37 Zeno Rocha Extremely interesting, but we have to see what are the other interfaces that this is going to expand to, like just cursor and cloud desktop is not enough. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:49 Zeno Rocha I have to switch to cursor even for a little bit, you know, even if it hurts in the beginning, like I remember my extensions were not ready and I was like, I hate this cursor thing. 2 times in the scene
Vibe Coding is Here - How AI is Changing How We Build Online
- ▶ 2:09 unnamed speaker So I think there are some, um, more sort of like IDE based companies like cursor that, um, are targeting developers and just making it, uh, a lot easier for them to code by giving an agent a prompt 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:59 Steph Smith Because I think maybe cursor is becoming more of a household name. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:34 unnamed speaker Like true engineers, they would probably start from cursor, but then for a simple like landing page stuff, um, I think lovable and bold and like visual of the world, they're all just very visually appealing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:29 unnamed speaker What would it look like for something like Cursor to come out right now? 2 times in the scene
Agent Experience: Building an Open Web for the AI Era
- ▶ 23:25 Matt Biilmann They don't quite get it, but they can use cursor to, like, ask questions and start figuring it out, and you suddenly see new programmers being born out of this, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:08 Martin Casado So I use cursor.
Avoiding vulnerabilities in AI code
- ▶ 1:40 Joel de la Garza A lot of folks are freezing hiring for engineers because they're getting additional productivity out of the staff they already have, because these large language models through tools like cursor are generating a tremendous amount of code.
- ▶ 19:11 Joel de la Garza Like, obviously, everyone's adopting cursor, everyone's using code gen, right?
Agents, Lawyers, and LLMs
- ▶ 19:19 unnamed speaker Um, there's no like VS code or cursor or whatever for lawyers.
How AI is Reshaping Labor Markets: A $Trillion-Dollar Opportunity Explained
- ▶ 40:44 Alex Rampell It's probably the tech people that actually build tools, and that's where things like Cursor have gotten so popular.