Supabase founders outline AI-app backend and private-alpha compute

Supabase co-founders told Latent Space about agent-friendly backends, private-alpha compute, and scale-out plans including Turso.

Supabase co-founders Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson spoke with Latent Space about why coding agents often use Supabase as an app backend and how the company expects to support many more applications. They described a local alpha runtime that starts a backend without Docker, declarative schemas stored in Git, and Supabase Compute in private alpha for long-lived workloads beside the database. Scale topics included OrioleDB, Multigres in private alpha, and the Turso acquisition. The founders said Supabase launches about five million databases a month and that AI-driven usage improved activation and conversion. The host said the company went from zero to a $10 billion valuation. The conversation, their first podcast together, was recorded ahead of Supabase Select 2026.