Daytona AI Researchers - Stanford, July 2026

Daytona AI Researchers - Stanford, July 21, 2026 On Tuesday, July 21 , Daytona and FounderCoHo are again co-hosting an exclusive, high-signal evening dedicated to researchers at Stanford University to explore when we take long-horizon, stateful agents seriously — from the infrastructure that makes them possible, to the evaluation frameworks that make them trustworthy. Agenda ​​​​🕒 5:30 pm – 5:35 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks 🎤 Marijan Cipcic , Principal Events Manager at Daytona 🕒 5:35 pm – 5:50 pm Talk "Today's Agents Don't Live In Episodes" 🎤 Muhammad Annas Hashmi , DevRel at Daytona ​​​​​​Outline: The 'episode' (short, stateless, resettable) has been RL's foundational abstraction since ATARI. It underpins the Gym API, GRPO, PPO, and the conventional sandbox lifecycle. Today's agents no longer fit it. Tasks span for days; the env state at hour 18 of an agent session with warm caches, installed deps, live processes, open sockets, dirty git tree, is worth hours of wall clock to reproduce. Three things are scaling simultaneously. Rollout horizon: seconds -> days. Env state:…