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Codex beats Claude Code, Stripe launched the AI bank & SpaceX targets a $7.5T valuation | GMP EP11

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Maybe the harness is just genuinely kind of a different discipline than model training. I think Cursor, they've been at this battle for years now, since 2022 when they were founded, where they're trying to figure out every last detail about the developer experience, whereas Anthropic and OpenAI are really focused on building the best models.

Ben Broch

Codex beats Claude Code, Stripe launche…

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Cursor Beats Claude Code: The Harness Story

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Technology

Cursor founded in 2022

Codex beats Claude Code, Stripe launched the AI bank & Spac… · May 1, 2026

Cursor has been perfecting the developer experience since 2022, giving it years of institutional knowledge across multiple models.

Business

Elon bid $60B for Cursor

Codex beats Claude Code, Stripe launched the AI bank & Spac… · May 1, 2026

Elon Musk placed a bid valuing Cursor at $60 billion, which likely emboldened the company to launch its competing SDK.

Technology

Cursor SDK: The Agentic Layer War Begins

Codex beats Claude Code, Stripe launched the AI bank & Spac… · May 1, 2026 Technology

Cursor's new SDK lets anyone embed its full harness, runtime, and models into their own product. Cursor now competes with the OpenAI and Anthropic — the same companies it pays billions to for inference. This is the same collision that happened between cloud providers and Snowflake.

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