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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry |
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| Founded | 2021 |
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| Headquarters | , United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
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| Products | Modal (serverless computing platform) |
| Website | modal |
Modal Labs, Inc. is an American software infrastructure company. The company provides a serverless cloud computing platform that makes it easy to deploy and develop machine learning models and other compute-heavy applications.
History
[edit]Modal Labs was founded in 2021 by Erik Bernhardsson (former CTO at Better.com and creator of Spotify's music recommendation system)[1] and Akshat Bubna (former engineering lead at Scale AI)[2]. Both Bernhardsson and Bubna come from competitive programming backgrounds.[3][4] The company raised a $7 million seed round in early 2022.
In 2023, Modal Labs secured $16 million in Series A funding led by Redpoint Ventures, with participation from Amplify Partners, Lux Capital and Definition Capital.[5][6]
The company is headquartered in New York City with offices in Stockholm and San Francisco.[7]
Features
[edit]Modal Labs offers a platform with several key features:
- Python SDK: Modal provides a Python SDK.[8] Users write Python functions that when decorated with Modal annotations, run in the cloud.
- Serverless Execution Environment: The platform automatically scales from zero to thousands of containers based on workload demands.
- GPU Access: On-demand access to Nvidia GPUs including H100s, A100s, L4s, and T4s with per-second billing.[9]
- Observability: Built-in logging, monitoring, and debugging tools for tracking execution and performance.
Use Cases
[edit]Common use cases for Modal's platform include:
- AI Inference (serving LLMs, image generators, video and audio models)
- AI Fine-tuning
- Large-scale data processing
- Running untrusted code
Privacy and Security
[edit]Modal Labs is SOC2 Type I, Type II,[10] and HIPAA compliant.[11]
Community and Adoption
[edit]Notable organizations using Modal include Suno AI,[12] Cursor, Substack,[13] Ramp,[14] and Quora.
See Also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Erik Bernhardsson - LinkedIn". LinkedIn. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- ^ "Akshat Bubna - LinkedIn". LinkedIn. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- ^ "IOI Statistics - Akshat Bubna". International Olympiad in Informatics. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- ^ "IOI Statistics - Erik Bernhardsson". International Olympiad in Informatics. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- ^ "Modal Labs lands $16M to abstract away big data workload infrastructure". TechCrunch. October 10, 2023. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- ^ "The Redpoint Infrared 100". Redpoint Ventures. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- ^ "Modal Company". Modal. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- ^ "Modal Python Client". GitHub. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- ^ "Modal Pricing". Modal. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- ^ "Modal Achieves SOC2 Type II Compliance". Modal. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- ^ "Modal Achieves HIPAA Compliance". Modal. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- ^ "Suno Case Study". Modal. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- ^ "Substack Case Study". Modal. Retrieved March 24, 2025.
- ^ "Ramp Case Study". Modal. Retrieved March 24, 2025.