machine0 Launches Persistent CLI-Based Cloud VMs for AI Agent Workloads

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Y Combinator startup machine0, founded by Barnaby, has launched a command-line tool that provisions persistent cloud virtual machines designed for long-running AI agent tasks. The service offers VMs billed by the minute, starting at $0.013 per hour, scaling up to 60 vCPUs, 240 GB RAM, and high-end GPUs including H100s and H200s. Each VM is a full KVM instance with 99.99% uptime, supporting features like snapshots, block storage, and credential profiles to isolate agent environments. The platform is already used by teams running agent fleets, reinforcement learning workloads, and product infrastructure where thousands of short-lived machines are spun up from versioned images. machine0 aims to address key challenges of running AI agents at scale, including resource constraints, security isolation, and task continuity when local machines go offline.

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