Upgrade 2026: Research to Reality
Fireside Chat: AI at the Frontier with Jordan Topoleski, Cursor
Moderators:
Vab Goel, Founding Partner, NTTVC
Chris Shaw, Chief Marketing Officer, NTT Research
Summary
Join Jordan Topoleski, Chief Operating Officer of Cursor, along with Vav Goel (Founding Partner of NTT VC) and Chris Shaw (CMO of NTT Research), for an inside look at the rapid evolution of AI-assisted coding. This session explores how Cursor grew into a $2 billion annual revenue run rate company in just three years by transforming the software development life cycle.
Unprecedented Enterprise Adoption: Cursor is currently utilized by over two million software developers weekly, encompassing roughly 70% of Fortune 500 companies.
The Three Waves of AI Coding: Discover how development has shifted from basic AI autocomplete (Wave 1) to collaborative pair-programming agents (Wave 2), and now to a “third wave” where developers orchestrate multiple cloud agents in parallel.
Shifting R&D Bottlenecks: As AI becomes capable of originating over 60% of code in average enterprise environments—and up to 97.3% internally at Cursor—traditional bottlenecks are moving away from writing code toward planning, design, and code review.
Democratizing Software Creation: Coding is no longer restricted to engineers. Product managers, finance teams, and go-to-market staff are now utilizing Cursor to independently build apps and operational prototypes.
Intelligent Model Routing: Learn about Cursor’s “Auto” technology, which automatically routes user queries to the best foundational models—such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google DeepMind—to optimize both cost and performance for specific tasks.