I thought it was odd that we'd not had one of these for a few weeks.

A few hours ago GH pages just would not publish at all.. and the status page showed as fine, I guess it's now cascaded into a proper event.

Not had one for a few weeks? There was an outage on Monday (as usual)

There was one yesterday.

I was hoping for a whole catalogue of providers - doesn't amp have their own offering here "Orbs"?

So, the interesting part for me was:

"Who runs the fleet Anthropic, its own E2B, rented, third party"

Like that's the only option, a bespoke platform or a rented SaaS for agent sandboxes.

Disclaimer: I am tooting my own horn here - we built SlicerVM.com (Firecracker + Apple Virtualization framework) so that people don't have to pick between those two options.

Especially when you have your own 1500-7000 USD MacBook right under your fingers.

For remote access, (and this happened by accident one night in January) we built superterm.dev - initially as a tmux manager, then as a way to run and monitor agents. Our team sits with 6-24 long running tasks with dictation available, great mobile experience, and can combine both for secure agents + high amounts of feedback.

If anyone's curious - Superterm has a CE edition - free for unlimited personal use. Slicer has a free trial and then a personal edition is available after that.

Amp’s Orbs run on E2B.

E2B is fully open-source under Apache 2.0 and runs on GCP, AWS, Azure (preview) and locally on any Linux box that has /dev/kvm (Mac works via Colima, too).

source: https://github.com/e2b-dev/infra

yes i havent tried out the rest of them, i learned about the space mainly just by poking around these 2 agents that I use. It seems very fun though since theres lot of optimization problems at play. Ill check out your one too would be cool to see what apples virtualization framework is like!

The "mia" persona on X has a specific vaguepost:

https://x.com/MiaAI_lab/status/2090736338328748220?s=20

> "I've got a confirmation on what model is Ox Alpha, but I can't share it yet. What I can say is this: You should ALL get really excited for this one!!! And it’s NOT what you think it is"

And others have said they have done analysis and found it to be GLM 5.x related.

That said, Mia said "it will be OSS" and "it'll run on 2x DGX Sparks" - well GLM 5.2 can run on 2x Sparks, but slowly and heavily degraded (quant). So doesn't really confirm/deny that suspicion.

I'm suspecting it is Deepseek flash-vision-exp V4

Unless it's an avant-garde A/B test with two endpoints targeting the same model, we now know it isn't.

I also very fond memories of the finger command - though mainly used on MUDs and the odd Linux host:

https://blog.alexellis.io/the-90s-unix-command-fell-out-of-f...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44943313