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Multi-GPU Kernels, Intelligence per Watt, Heterogeneous Inference, and More | YC Paper Club · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:48 Francois Chaubard Uh, he is, which is the strip mall research lab now, um, used to be called hazy, formerly called hazy, uh, research scientist at cursor, um, and trains composer, and then we have John, uh, CS PhD lab mate with me as well, also co-advised…
- ▶ 7:21 Stuart (Stu) I'm also a researcher at Cursor where I train composer, and today I'm here to talk about parallel kittens, which is our work on making multi-GPU AI kernels simple and fast.
- ▶ 20:57 Stuart (Stu) For example, Cursor is using it to train Composer on tens of thousands of Blackwell GPUs.
Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · Y Combinator
- ▶ 25:23 Jensen Huang We have, you know, Boris is in the back, and, and we, we've got cloud code autonomously running in sandboxes all over NVIDIA, and that's really fantastic, and some people use codex, some people use cloud code, some people use cursor, some…
The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:50 Bryant Chou And in this case, I'm just going to pretend that I'm someone from cursor and we spent about 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:05 Garry Tan So say I'm cursor, I released composer.
- ▶ 29:30 Garry Tan So there is like a competitive dynamic to it, which has already happened for coding tools, for instance, like sort of unconscionable in, uh, 20, 26 to not be using cloud code or codex or cursor, you know, just.
- ▶ 34:01 Diana Hu This is why I think going back to ClockCode versus Cursor ended up doing so well.
Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:14 Pete Koomen And so you had, uh, kind of the first generation, uh, windsurf and cursor that were well-established by this point.
This Startup Catches Fraud at Scale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:41 Karine Malata And I think one other really interesting anecdote is that our customer success manager, who's entirely non-technical, but interfaces with enterprise customers on a day-to-day basis, now gets to take on feature requests, especially the…
AI Is Unlocking Millions Of New Builders · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:59 Mukund Jha I think Karso was just, just getting, getting, getting started.
- ▶ 14:06 unnamed speaker People don't realize is you guys actually, you actually started out essentially as sort of Devon cursor in like the actual like coding agent world for engineers.
The AI Agent Economy Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:16 Harj Taggar Like if we, if you think back a year ago, we were talking about cursor versus windsurf and like that product experience was essentially like,
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:31 unnamed speaker At that point, it was like the IDEs, cursor, windsurf were the things that were really taking off.
We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:12 Calvin French-Owen At the time, Cursor was out in the market, and they had kind of built this shim around, I think it was Sonnet 3.5, and it was able to work in your IDE.
- ▶ 3:23 Calvin French-Owen Uh, for a while I was deeply in cursor.
- ▶ 4:19 Diana Hu And I think the fascinating thing is because it's on the terminal is the purist form for composable atomic integrations, because if you came from, uh, ID first world, which is where cursor was, and I suppose codex too, this concept of, uh,…
- ▶ 6:26 Calvin French-Owen Like thinking about a cursor or a cloud code or a codex CLI, the fact that you can just download it and use it without having to get IT permissions or anything makes a huge difference.
- ▶ 11:16 Calvin French-Owen Uh, like I think cursor takes an approach where they actually do semantic search, where they embed everything and figure out like, Hey, what query is closest to this?