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Robert Peston

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773 total appearances

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Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

But my goodness, you've raised quite a lot of money quite quickly from the last time you raised money at a much higher valuation.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

Why and what does it mean to you?

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

Well, first, thank you for having me.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

We raised this money to invest deeply in research.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

And we are this company that's something in between a product company and then also an AI and models company.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

And in parts, it's an important product lever for us to do our own investment in product-specific models.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

And that's something we've been doing for many years.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

This lets us do that in a

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

You know, I was in Washington, D.C.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

for GTCDC, Jensen Wong goes on stage and he made a very pointed remark that software, generally speaking, is now worth paying for, and he used Cursor as the case study.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

Would you actually talk us through the case study?

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

NVIDIA is a big company.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

It has many of its own engineers.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

How are they using Cursor?

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

What are they using it for?

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

And how are you charging them for it?

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

Well, we've been really happy to see not just the accelerating demand in our market, but also the success in our deployments with customers.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

There was actually a study that came out recently that showed that customers, after they switch to our agent, get 40% more done.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

This is a productivity reference for the engineer themselves, the workload that they're trying to get through?

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

Yes.