Eno Reyes: Is Anthropic's Coding Business Worth $2 Trillion? | Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Why 80–90% of Neo-Labs Die in the Next 18 Months?

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Aug 29, 2026

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Eno Reyes is the co-founder and CTO of Factory, the agent-native software development platform building autonomous "Droids" for enterprise engineering teams. Factory has raised $220 million, most recently a $150 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation, from investors including Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, 20VC, NEA, Blackstone, Insight Partners and Nvidia. Before founding Factory, Eno worked as a machine-learning engineer at Hugging Face, training, optimizing and deploying large language models for enterprise customers.

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  • Why Can the Smartest AI Model Be the Cheapest?

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  • Will 80–90% of Neo-Labs Die in the Next 18 Months?

  • Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models?

  • Must AI Founders Radically Rethink What a Great Outcome Looks Like?

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  • Which Is the Biggest Threat: Claude Code, Codex, Cognition or Cursor?

  • What Seems Crazy Today but Will Be Obvious in Five Years?

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