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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Huang: Cursor, Claude, and OpenAI enterprise usage maintain strong margins
“Cursor, their margins are great. Claude's margins are great. For the enterprise use of OpenAI, their margins are great.”
Jensen Huang Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 2:39 NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang on Reasoning Models, Robotics, and Refuting the “AI Bubble” Narrative
Insight
Krishnan: Undetectable Backdoors in Coding Assistants Threaten Critical Infrastructure
“Interpretability is still a nascent field and you could very easily see ways where You plug a model into a cursor or windsurf and you generate a piece of code. And then two years down the road, it turns out that code had a little if statement saying, if I'm ru…”
Sriram Krishnan Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 18:42 No Priors Ep. 125 | With Senior White House Policy Advisor on AI Sriram Krishnan
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Arora: AI Apps Automating Enterprise Workflows Is a Long Time Coming
“When they grow up, they're going to take over more and more of our tasks. And allow the repetitive task to go away so you can apply yourself to new unique problems. But I think there's a long time coming.”
Nikesh Arora Oct 2, 2025 ▶ 11:52 No Priors | With Palo Alto Networks CEO & Former Chief Business Officer of Google Nikesh Arora
Disclosure
Mann: Anthropic built Claude Code because partner feedback was too slow
“So we love our partners like cursor and GitHub who have been using our models quite heavily, but the amount and the speed that we learn is much less if we don't have a direct relationship with our coding users. So launching cloud code was really essential for …”
Ben Mann Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 11:55 No Priors Ep. 118 | With Anthropic Co-Founder Ben Mann
Opinion
Gil: AI coding market has consolidated into a few key players
“Encoding, it seems like it's consolidated into two or three players. You know, maybe that's Cursor, Codium, Cognition, and then Microsoft, Microsoft's like Copilot, right? But there aren't probably like two dozen companies that are all still competing there.”
Elad Gil May 29, 2025 ▶ 1:15 No Priors Ep. 116 | With Sarah and Elad
Disclosure
Huang: Every engineer at NVIDIA pervasively uses Cursor
“We are using, we use cursor here, and we use cursor pervasively here. Every engineer uses it”
Jensen Huang Jan 8, 2026 ▶ 38:44 NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang on Reasoning Models, Robotics, and Refuting the “AI Bubble” Narrative
Insight
Pereyra: Narrow AI point solutions fail to leverage generalist model power
“If you had built something where it's like all this does is like check that your Python code doesn't have bugs, which you could have done better with 3.5, like you wouldn't have built something like cursor. And the intuition was just these models can help you …”
Gabe Pereyra Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 34:05 No Priors Ep. 142 | With Harvey Co-Founder and President Gabe Pereyra
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Guo: Cursor team makes product decisions via instinct, not user interviews
“I think it is, like, reasonably well known that the cursor team, like, they make their decisions actually very instinctively versus spending a lot of time talking to users”
Sarah Guo Aug 21, 2025 ▶ 21:13 No Priors Ep. 128 | With Andrew Ng, Managing General Partner at AI Fund
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Simons: Large number of Cursor downloads come from non-developers
“There is, and there was, and is a large number of people They've been downloading cursor that are not developers because it let them meaningfully dip their toes into kind of like clicking accept change from the AI.”
Eric Simons Dec 6, 2024 ▶ 23:44 No Priors Ep. 92 | With StackBlitz CEO and Co-Founder Eric Simons
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