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Daytona spins up a single agent sandbox in 60ms

Ivan Burazin · AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona · May 21, 2026 · at 17:40

Ivan Burazin is the CEO of Daytona, an agent sandbox and compute infrastructure platform, discussing performance metrics with Shawn Wang.

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“And so our time to spin up one is 60 milliseconds with network agency. So requests, spin up, reply, 60, the whole thing, 60 milliseconds.”

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