Samar Abbas

Co-founder/CEO of Temporal Technologies (@temporalio)

[Ammar Safdari @asapdar]

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@temporalio

[Temporal @temporalio]

🎉 Just announced at #Replay2026: Serverless Workers are here in pre-release. Run Temporal Workers on serverless compute, starting with AWS Lambda.

Temporal can now invoke, scale, and shut down Workers automatically with no infra planning or autoscaling strategy necessary.

Docs: https://t.co/XM3Q8XYnMm

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[Temporal @temporalio]

Temporal has achieved the AWS AI Competency in the Agentic AI Tools category! This recognizes our work helping engineering teams build and operate reliable AI agents at scale.

Read the announcement: https://t.co/4gi6SnSBoN

[Temporal @temporalio]

Temporal + OpenAI Agents SDK sandbox support 🤝

Following yesterday’s news from @OpenAIDevs, we’re excited to announce an extension of the Temporal integration with OpenAI Agents SDK. The Agents SDK now provides native sandbox infra support, while Temporal provides durable execution for your agents and sandbox infrastructure.

Read all the details on our blog: https://t.co/SBn2sFUgGP

[Temporal @temporalio]

Fresh out of a CS degree, 1 year into his career, Pasha Fateev found himself at a crossroads. Then he met a founder in the Temporal Community Slack and three weeks later had 50k lines of Temporal code in production.

His only prior Temporal experience: the 101 and 102 courses 🤯🔥

He wrote up how he did it, including a Workflow anti-pattern he only caught in hindsight and a voice agent that never quite learned phone etiquette. It worked though, and so did he. (He’s an engineer at Temporal now.)

Read his story: https://t.co/eQ95zFNDlb

[Samar Abbas @SamarAtTemporal]

This was so much fun. Thanks @sarahdingwang @RaghuRaghuram for having me.

[a16z @a16z]

"We are clearly entering a world where a product-minded engineer is now empowered to produce software without writing a line of code for it."

In this conversation, Temporal CEO Samar Abbas joins a16z GPs Sarah Wang and Raghu Raghuram to cover:

- Why agents are going from short-lived and interactive to long-running and async
- Why the engineer of the future manages 15 parallel AI tasks at once
- How OpenAI Codex runs millions of concurrent agent executions on Temporal
- How real-time context engineering is exploding on Temporal
- Why SaaS isn't dead, and value is migrating to APIs

00:00 Introduction
04:03 Temporal's origin story
11:14 Why agents raise the stakes
16:00 Specialized agents need durable RPC
25:20 Deep research agents
30:58 Execution histories as a superpower
39:04 Minimal viable long-running agent architecture
45:07 Context engineering at scale
52:40 Where value accrues: The "five-layer cake" and breakout AI applications

@SamarAtTemporal @sarahdingwang @RaghuRaghuram

[Samar Abbas @SamarAtTemporal]

So excited to be partnering with @CasberW and @SapphireVC team!!!

[Sapphire Ventures @SapphireVC]

Congrats to @SamarAtTemporal & the @Temporalio team on the $300M Series D! 🌟👏

Temporal provides the infrastructure layer that helps teams run long-lived, stateful AI applications reliably & at scale, so developers can focus on innovation

We’re proud back Temporal as they continue to help companies move agentic AI out of the lab & into the real world.

[Sapphire Ventures @SapphireVC]

Congrats to @SamarAtTemporal & the @Temporalio team on the $300M Series D! 🌟👏

Temporal provides the infrastructure layer that helps teams run long-lived, stateful AI applications reliably & at scale, so developers can focus on innovation

We’re proud back Temporal as they continue to help companies move agentic AI out of the lab & into the real world.

[Samar Abbas @SamarAtTemporal]

So excited to be partnering with @ravi_lsvp and @anoushkavaswani at @lightspeedvp.

https://t.co/EBiA716W35

[Samar Abbas @SamarAtTemporal]

So excited to be partnering with @RaghuRaghuram @sarahdingwang !!!

[Samar Abbas @SamarAtTemporal]

Today marks an incredible milestone for @temporalio Technologies. I am proud to share that the company has raised $300M in Series D funding at a $5B valuation, led by @a16z.

This news is a testament to the community and trust we’ve built in our Durable Execution, further solidifying our mission to continue investing in open source, expand cloud platforms, and continue helping companies move agentic AI out of the lab and into the real world.

Read more here: https://t.co/sZw2UPyDMw

[Lenny Pruss @lennypruss]

@temporalio With Temporal, your agent code stays clean while getting enterprise-grade reliability and scalability: automatic retries with custom policies, state persistence, fault tolerance, and workflows that can run for months without timing out. The magic happens behind the scenes.

[Lenny Pruss @lennypruss]

Everyone's talking about AI agents as the next architectural shift. They are not a mystical, secret thing: they are just complex, long running, dynamic workflows. And engineers building them will run into familiar problems to anyone building distributed systems.

[Samar Abbas @SamarAtTemporal]

Bringing AI Agents to production should not be an afterthought. With @temporalio integration with Open AI's Agent SDK, you can design, test & ship production‑ready agents—complete with durable execution, retries, and observability—from day one.

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

Agents SDK + @temporalio = durable, production-ready agents.

Wrap your agent logic in a Temporal workflow to persist state, survive crashes, auto-retry failures, and run for days—with just a few lines of code.

Here's how it works: https://t.co/rs7JXzp7OS

[Sunflower Capital @seedtosunflower]

We’re excited to announce Sunflower Capital Funds I and II. Sunflower is a $250m fund that partners at the earliest stage with companies building foundations for modern enterprises, critical industries, and the physical world.

[Temporal @temporalio]

🤝 How Temporal Technologies Helps @JoinVantage Scale with Confidence

As Vantage grew, so did its codebase's complexity. By migrating to Temporal, Vantage gained better visibility and control over its workflows!

📖Read more about their journey here:
https://t.co/H7bPw6IudH

[Built In Seattle @BuiltInSeattle]

Valued at well over $1 billion following its latest #funding round, software company @Temporalio is enhancing its open-source solution with new use cases for #AI. https://t.co/69GAU8rGNd

[Samar Abbas @SamarAtTemporal]

Thanks @AmplifyPartners and @lennypruss for being such a strong supporter since the inception of the company. Really looking forward to more building in the next phase of the company.

[Amplify Partners @AmplifyPartners]

Congrats to @temporalio on their Series C!

https://t.co/SVJCToTPqr

[Samar Abbas @SamarAtTemporal]

Thanks @BogieBalkansky for all your support over the years. Excited to partner with you on the next phase of the company.

[Bogomil Balkansky @BogieBalkansky]

Congratulations to the @temporalio team on a big Series C! We at @sequoia partnered with @mfateev and @SamarAtTemporal more than five years ago, and what an amazing journey it has been! Durable Execution has grown from an obscure idea to a mission-critical technology that underpins money movement, short-term rental bookings, fast food orders, food delivery, and many AI use cases ..
Could not be more proud of this team and what they have achieved so far. And even more excited about what's to come!

[Samar Abbas @SamarAtTemporal]

Thanks @IndexVentures for the trust. Excited to deepen our partnership!!!

[Index Ventures @IndexVentures]

Congrats, @temporalio! We're proud to back the company in its $146M Series C.

Temporal's redefining durable execution, powering mission-critical & AI-driven workloads for teams at Snap, Netflix, Datadog & more.

https://t.co/9xrxk59SR2