@zongheng_yang: Sandboxes are all the rage (Modal, E2B, AWS, ..). Most AI teams pay a >4x markup to run sandboxes on someone else's mac…
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SkyPilot Sandboxes allows AI teams to run sandboxes on their own clusters, offering 4-10x cost savings compared to Modal with sub-second launches and warm pools.
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Sandboxes are all the rage (Modal, E2B, AWS, ..). Most AI teams pay a >4x markup to run sandboxes on someone else’s machines.
Introducing SkyPilot Sandboxes — Run BYOC sandboxes on your own clusters.
• 50,000+ sandboxes on a single cluster • Sub-second launches with warm pools • Great for RL rollout (keep sandbox clusters close to GPUs)
Benchmark shows @skypilot_org Sandboxes are 4-10x cheaper than Modal at lower latency. Full results in blog.
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