Supabase founders discuss backends for AI-built apps
Original title: Supabase’s Plan for a Billion AI-Built Apps
The interview covers Compute beside the database, Multigres in private alpha, the Turso acquisition, and agent-friendly schemas.
Supabase co-founders Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson spoke with swyx about running long-lived workloads next to the database, making schemas easier for agents, and infrastructure for many more applications. Topics include Postgres reliability and scaling, Multigres in private alpha, the Turso acquisition, open source, community distribution, and internal AI use. The conversation was recorded ahead of Supabase Select 2026.
- Supabase Compute is described as running workloads alongside the database.
- Multigres, highly available Postgres infrastructure, is in private alpha.
- The notes cite Supabase's acquisition of Turso as a scale-out opportunity.
- Vendors
- Supabase
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AI agents are creating more software—and that changes what a backend needs to do. Supabase co-founders Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson join swyx to discuss running long-lived workloads alongside the database, making schemas easier for agents to underst...
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