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Khosla just paid $1.5B to short the idea that model lock-in is a moat in AI coding. Factory's valuation went from $300M to $1.5B in 7 months. 5x. Look past the number. What Khosla is actually buying is the only company whose core bet is that the foundation model under you stops mattering. Every AI coding platform had to pick a thesis. Cursor: we'll rewrap whichever model wins. Claude Code: our model is the best. Cognition's Devin: we own the agent end to end. Factory's bet is sharper. Agent design beats model choice, and they'll prove it on every frontier model simultaneously. They did. Droid hit #1 on Terminal-Bench with Claude Opus at 58.8%. Then #3 with GPT-5 at 52.5%. Then Sonnet at 50.5%. Three of the top five agents on the hardest end-to-end coding benchmark are all Factory running different models. Claude Code running Claude itself came in at 43.2%. That's the thesis trade. If agent framework beats model selection, then Anthropic and OpenAI get commoditized in code the same way AWS commoditized server hardware. The moat moves from "which model" to "which orchestration layer sits between the developer and the model." Run the math on where the money is going. Cursor is at $29.3B. Replit is at $9B (also Khosla, tripled in 6 months). Cognition, Magic, Codeium, and Factory bring the AI coding stack to roughly $50B in private valuation. The space is being priced like one of them wins a generational prize. Factory is the only one in that set whose product gets better as the model landscape gets noisier. Every new frontier model release is distribution for them. Every model release for a rival is a feature migration risk. The part nobody's pricing: enterprise buyers are starting to ask which vendor survives three years from now. At MongoDB, EY, Bayer, Zapier, and Clari, Factory is already the answer. 31x faster feature delivery and 96.1% shorter migration times is what a CIO shows the board when moving a dev org off one vendor. The real question for the rest of the stack: what happens to your valuation when model choice stops being a purchase criterion?