Space streams cloud files directly into Premiere, Photoshop and other Mac apps

Jason Zhao launched Space on August 10th, a cloud filesystem for macOS that streams file data on demand into applications like Adobe Premiere and Photoshop, positioning it as 'what Dropbox was supposed to be.' The product, developed with Arihant Bapna and Matthew Ao, originated from their media workflow that generated over a terabyte of raw footage weekly, and now targets media teams, creators, and AI agents by providing a shared virtual drive without full-file downloads.

Jason Zhao @byjasonz https://x.com/byjasonz launched Space https://spacefs.com on August 10th, pitching a cloud filesystem that appears as a normal Mac drive and streams only the portions of a file requested by local applications. https://x.com/byjasonz/status/2086857670318068162 https://x.com/byjasonz/status/2086857670318068162 Zhao described Space in a thread on X https://x.com/byjasonz/status/2086857670318068162 as an attempt to deliver "what Dropbox was supposed to be": cloud capacity that behaves like storage attached directly to a computer. Space says its virtual drive works with existing applications, shared team workflows and AI agents without requiring users to move files through a separate web interface. x.com https://x.com/byjasonz/status/2086857670318068162 The launch gives a new name and a broader collaboration pitch to technology Zhao, Arihant Bapna and Matthew Ao demonstrated earlier this summer as Skyglass. Matthew Ao https://ca.linkedin.com/in/matthew-r-ao said the original prototype grew out of the trio's own media workflow, which generated over a terabyte of raw footage in some weeks for the Matt & Ari YouTube channel. The recurring choice between buying hard drives and waiting through cloud transfers became the product brief. ca.linkedin.com https://ca.linkedin.com/in/matthew-r-ao?utm source=openai That origin still shapes the strongest use case. Space lists DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere, Photoshop and Blender among the applications that can treat its virtual filesystem as a conventional drive. Zhao also published a video edited through Space https://youtu.be/T-c8WvE3Lck , while his launch thread singled out media teams, creators and developers moving work across multiple computers. spacefs.com https://spacefs.com/ Streaming files instead of synchronizing copies Conventional cloud drives commonly maintain local copies of files or download a complete file before an application can work with it. Space says it fetches requested byte ranges in real time and caches only the data a user touches. A video editor scrubbing through a large clip, for example, should receive the relevant sections without first pulling the entire source file onto the Mac. spacefs.com https://spacefs.com/ Space also says saved changes propagate to connected devices within seconds. Files being written by a teammate or agent can become readable from another connected machine before the upload has completed, according to Space's product page. Those claims have not been independently benchmarked, though Space has published a filesystem benchmark repository on GitHub https://github.com/Space-Computer-Inc containing scripts for comparing NFS and virtual filesystem implementations. spacefs.com https://spacefs.com/ The product is currently focused on macOS. Signing in adds a drive named Space to Finder, and a global search tool called Spacebar can be opened with Option-Space. Space's website now offers a Mac download https://drive.spacefs.com/download and demo bookings, moving the product beyond the earlier prototype videos shared by Zhao and Ao. spacefs.com https://spacefs.com/ A shared filesystem for people and agents Zhao is also positioning the filesystem as infrastructure for AI-native organizations. Agents can read from and write to the same mounted drive used by employees and existing desktop applications, removing the need to construct a separate file-transfer layer for each automated workflow. Space's LinkedIn page describes the product as storage "built for humans and agents." spacefs.com https://spacefs.com/ That pitch raises the stakes around permissions, indexing and data handling. Space's privacy notice https://spacefs.com/privacy/ says stored files may be indexed for search and processed by infrastructure and AI service providers as needed to supply requested features. It also says public links can expose associated content without requiring an account, while workspace members may see files, activity and membership information according to their roles. spacefs.com https://spacefs.com/privacy/ Space is a four-person, Toronto-linked business founded in 2026, according to its LinkedIn page. Zhao studied at Queen's University, while Bapna studied at the University of Toronto. The three builders already had experience producing software and media together before turning their own storage bottleneck into Space. linkedin.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/spacecomputers Space has not published pricing on its main website. The immediate test is performance under the conditions its target customers care about: large source files, several collaborators, unstable connections and applications that expect local-disk latency. If its byte-range streaming holds up in production, Space can sell cloud storage as an active workspace instead of a remote archive.