Modal is a serverless compute platform focused on AI workloads, aiming to help AI teams quickly deploy GPU-enabled containers for rapid iteration and autoscaling. The company was founded by Erik Bernhardsson, who previously spent seven years at Spotify building the music recommendation system and the Luigi workflow scheduler. In this episode, Erik talks with Sean Falconer about his motivation for founding Modal, the gaps in ML and AI tooling, optimizing container cold start, and the platform’s interface design.
Sean Falconer has been an academic, startup founder, and Googler, with published works spanning from AI to quantum computing. He is currently an AI Entrepreneur in Residence at Confluent, focusing on AI strategy and thought leadership. Connect with Sean on LinkedIn.
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