Modal CTO on AI Cloud and Sandbox Scaling
Latent Space · youtube · 2026-07-09
This podcast interviewed Modal CTO Akshat Bubna, discussing Modal's evolution in AI cloud and infrastructure, and its product pivot from a developer experience focus to an "agent experience."
The interview dives deep into Modal's specific tech stack, including serverless functions, elastic inference, GPU snapshotting, sandboxes, persistent storage, networked containers, RDMA, and multi-node training, as well as why AI applications fundamentally clash with traditional cloud assumptions.
More from coding & agent
- A better path to agent autonomy is running waves, finding friction, and iterating — JnBrymn · 2026-07-22
- Coding agents are heading toward an AI-writes, AI-reviews, human-approves workflow — aftahi_ai · 2026-07-22
- oMLX 0.5.2 adds Mac menu-bar stats, low-bit decode kernels, and faster downloads — awnihannun · 2026-07-22
- GitHub review bot hits its PR limit and forces a 39-minute cooldown — DanielLockyer · 2026-07-22
- Max reasoning effort appears to be mobile-only in Codex Remote, not desktop — GabGarrett · 2026-07-22
- A Reddit demo argues online stores should expose carts and pricing through MCP — gelembjuk · 2026-07-22