Modal is a serverless compute platform focused on AI workloads, aiming to enable AI teams to quickly deploy GPU-enabled containers, iterate rapidly, and autoscale. Erik Bernhardsson, who spent seven years at Spotify building the music recommendation system and the Luigi workflow scheduler, founded the company. In this episode, Erik joins Sean Falconer to discuss the company’s founding motivation, the market gap in ML and AI tools, optimizing container cold starts, Modal’s interface design, and more.
Sean has been an academic, startup founder, and Googler with published works spanning AI to quantum computing. Currently, he is an AI Entrepreneur in Residence at Confluent, focusing on AI strategy and thought leadership. You can connect with Sean on LinkedIn.
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