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Modal Labs is listed on DirJournal under AI Infrastructure Clouds in New York, New York, United States.

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Modal Labs

Modal is a serverless cloud infrastructure platform optimized for AI and machine learning workloads, founded in 2021 and headquartered in New York City. Founded by Erik Bernhardsson (former CTO of Better and creator of the Annoy library at Spotify), Modal provides a Python-native serverless GPU compute platform with sub-second cold starts, autoscaling from zero to thousands of GPU containers, instant model deployment, batch inference, scheduled jobs, and the Modal Sandboxes for running untrusted code. Customers include Suno, Substack, Ramp, ScaleAI, and Cursor for AI inference, fine-tuning, batch data processing, and AI agent execution. Modal raised 80 million Series B at a 1.1 billion valuation from Lux Capital, Redpoint, and Definition Capital.

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Editorial analysis

Modal's Python-first design and sub-second GPU cold starts directly address the fragmentation problem in ML ops, where teams waste engineering cycles bridging frameworks and infrastructure.

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About Modal Labs

What does Modal Labs do?
Modal is a serverless cloud infrastructure platform optimized for AI and machine learning workloads, founded in 2021 and headquartered in New York City. Founded by Erik Bernhardsson (former CTO of Better and creator of the Annoy library at Spotify), Modal provides a Python-native serverless GPU compute platform with sub-second cold
Where is Modal Labs based?
Modal Labs is based in New York, New York, United States.
When was Modal Labs founded?
Modal Labs was founded in 2021 and has been operating for 5 years.
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New York, New York, United States
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2021
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1-10 employees
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