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Robert Peston

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Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

It's looking at pull requests merged and metrics like that.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

But folks are seeing lots of success out in the field.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

And so to Jensen's comment, the ROI of buying the tool has been so high for many of our customers, which makes us really happy.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

And on the pricing front, there's two components.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

One is a seat component, where we look at usage, we look at how many people are using Cursor every month within an account, and then pricing matches that.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

And then if folks are using the product in a really, really deep way, there's also a usage component, similar to a Databricks or a Snowflake.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

What's interesting is vibe coding was all the lexicon in the past few months.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

And many people felt that it was individuals who were paying the $20 for a cursor and really doing it and really feeling the power of understanding and being able to prompt.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

How about now what you call AI coding?

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

Is this more of an enterprise play?

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

Is it more of a sit at home and play it being a developer play?

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

We serve professional development teams.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

And in particular, professional engineers are our ICP.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

And so when we use the term AI coding, it's to underline that we care.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

There are some folks that experiment with the tool for prototypes.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

But the core use case, the reason the vast majority of customers are using Cursor, is to get real work done in their real jobs.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

And that means shipping carefully in professional code bases at the highest degree of quality.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

We were just talking about all the CEOs of the Magnificent Seven and others who have been using Cursor, been talking about Cursor.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

They must have been calling Cursor.

Bloomberg Tech
AI Funding Frenzy Continues with Cursor, Thinking Machines

Michael, how many inbounds are you getting on companies wanting to buy you at this moment?