Railway pitches itself as the agent-native cloud — bare-metal data centers and deployment for AI agents

Summary

Latent Space published a long-form interview with Railway founder Jake Cooper on May 20, in which Railway explicitly repositions itself as "the agent-native cloud." The pitch is bare-metal data centers and ephemeral compute primitives optimized for AI agents that spin up VMs per task, run long-horizon workflows, and tear down on completion. Railway is leaning into the cloud-VM-per-agent pattern that Devin, Claude Computer Use, OpenAI Operator, and Gemini Spark have all converged on — but argues