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Modal (modal.com) is a New York-based AI infrastructure company founded in 2021 by Erik Bernhardsson and Akshat Bubna. The platform provides a serverless, code-first compute environment enabling developers and ML teams to run inference, training, batch workloads, and secure code sandboxes on elastic GPU and CPU infrastructure. Modal's custom Rust-based container runtime achieves sub-second cold starts, and its Python-native decorator API eliminates the need for YAML, Dockerfiles, or manual infrastructure management. The platform supports multi-cloud GPU capacity across AWS, GCP, and Oracle Cloud, with automatic scale-to-zero billing. Products span LLM inference, model fine-tuning, Sandboxes for AI agent code execution, batch processing, and collaborative Notebooks. Modal is SOC 2 compliant and HIPAA compatible. Customers include Lovable, Substack, Scale AI, Cognition, and Ramp. Modal raised an $87M Series B in 2025 at a $1.1B valuation.