
Priyesh Srivastava
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Priyesh Srivastava
@fpdotmoney
LLMs @onfinance_ai | Research Interests https://t.co/T8eoP9Ernq


4 of the most confusing terms in AI, defined: Model: a blob of parameters, written during training. Does next-token prediction and nothing else. Stateless. Harness: everything around the model that turns it into an agent: tools, system prompt, context window management, etc. Environment: the world the agent acts on. Anything outside the harness that the agent perceives and acts on via tools. Agent: a model, harnessed, in an environment. --- Opus is a model. Claude Code and Claude Web are different agents, because their harnesses differ - even though the models are the same. The file system is an environment. MCP servers add tools to the environment.




This is wild. SpaceX now has the right to BUY Cursor for $60B. Or pay them $10 billion to walk away. To put it in perspective, Cursor was worth $9.9 billion total in May of last year. Let's have a closer look at the numbers. Start with the $60 billion. Cursor was already raising money this week at a $52 billion valuation from a16z and Nvidia. The Elon offer sits 15% above a number that was already on the table. The next round priced in, with a one-year fuse. The $10 billion is the real number. That's what SpaceX pays even if it walks away and never buys the company. The walk-away fee alone is more than the entire company was worth 12 months ago. Now the strategic logic. Cursor stopped being just an editor in March. They shipped Composer 2, their own model, and it beat Claude Opus 4.6 on Terminal-Bench at one-tenth the price. The catch is that frontier coding models need frontier compute, and the only labs with frontier compute are the same ones building competing coding products. OpenAI shipped Codex. Anthropic shipped Claude Code. Google has Gemini CLI. Cursor was renting capacity from every company trying to kill it. Colossus is the way out. 230,000 GPUs in Memphis today, 1 million by year end, the biggest training cluster on Earth. The Information already reported Cursor is renting tens of thousands of those chips to train Composer 3. SpaceX is also building Grok Code, so they're not a clean partner. But xAI losing the coding race to Cursor is a better outcome for SpaceX than Cursor losing the coding race to OpenAI. The trade Cursor made: gave up the right to be acquired by anyone else for one year. Got training compute at a scale no other lab would sell them. Got $10 billion guaranteed if Elon walks. OpenAI tried to buy Cursor in early 2025 and got rejected. Cursor stays independent for at least 12 more months and gets to train on the biggest cluster on earth doing it. Elon just bought a one-year call option on Cursor for $10 billion. That's the deal.


There should be a YC/venture capital for really bad founders Give money to the absolute retards and see what they do with it Paralympics type shit

March 31, 2026. End of FY26. What a year. @OnFinance_ai A few things happened: 1.) We went from a handful of people in a room to 38 builders who show up every single day like it's Day 1. 2.) We now work with ~45 of India's largest financial institutions, names you see on billboards, stock tickers, and your banking apps. Their combined AUM/Market Cap? ~$783 Billion. Not a typo. 3.) We raised our Pre-A, backed by folks from Peak XV Partners, ex-OpenAI, CRED, Razorpay, and Groww. When people who've built generational companies back you, you know the problem you're solving is real. 4.) Our product suite quietly matured, multiple platforms, multiple personas, one mission. If you're in Indian BFSI and not talking to us yet, you probably will be in the next 12 months. 5.) We're also no longer just an India story. Southeast Asia. MENA. And soon, the US. Different markets, same conviction. 6.) Oh, and March was our best month all year. Poetic timing. 7.) We hosted our first hackathon. We broke things. We fixed them faster. We shipped. Grateful for a team that runs on grit, resilience, and an unreasonable amount of passion. FY27, we're coming. 🚀


















