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Rik
41 bits across the podcasts they've appeared on
Claude Code reached $2.5 billion in annualized recurring revenue just nine months after launch, making it the fastest B2B SaaS product to reach that milestone ever.
SpaceX filed for its IPO targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation, raising $75 billion — making it the largest IPO in history.
God Mode Pod hit one million total views by episode 15.
GPT 5.5 reportedly performs better inside Cursor than inside OpenAI's own Codex environment.
OpenAI is finalizing a historic $100 billion funding round, with NVIDIA allegedly contributing $30 billion.
Cursor reportedly hit a $3 billion annual revenue run rate ahead of the SpaceX acquisition deal, though Dan suggested it likely costs $6 billion to generate that revenue.
Rik cancelled his $100/month Claude Max subscription live on air, reallocating the spend across Cursor ($20), Codex ($20), Claude ($20), and xAI ($20), with $20 left for video generation.
Per Ramp data, Anthropic overtook OpenAI in business adoption for the first time, despite OpenAI holding roughly 85% of consumer user share versus Anthropic's 5–10%.
Claude Opus 4.8 reduced its dishonesty rate from 19.7% in Opus 4.7 to 3.7%, the biggest measurable improvement in the release.
Anthropic's pre-IPO shares on the Jupiter Solana DEX surged ~640% from $122 per share in October 2025 to a valuation of roughly $900 billion by April 2026.
Elon Musk placed a bid valuing Cursor at $60 billion, which likely emboldened the company to launch its competing SDK.
OpenAI responded to Anthropic's business adoption milestone by offering Codex free for 30 days to new business sign-ups, escalating the enterprise AI wars.
Grok 4.3 is priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens — roughly one-quarter of Anthropic and OpenAI's pricing.
The spot rental price of an H200 GPU dropped to $4.11 per hour, down from a peak of approximately $7 per hour a few weeks prior.
Ben reportedly 2.5x'd his monthly recurring revenue since starting to use OpenClaw, making him one of the few people Rik knows seeing real productivity results from the tool.
