Inside Temporal’s journey to a $12.55B valuation, and its bet on building a backbone for AI agents
THE SO WHAT
A $12.55B valuation on workflow orchestration is a bet that long-running AI agents will need industrial-grade durability and replay, not just clever prompts. If you’re building agentic systems, you now have to decide: roll your own control plane, or standardize on an external backbone like Temporal and accept that dependency.
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