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The Future of AI Infra: from Kubernetes to Agent Sandboxes — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO
- ▶ 1:18 unnamed speaker We're here with Akshat of Modo, CTO of Modo, together with Viboo. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:24 unnamed speaker Uh, I am locked in to modal. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:38 Akshat Bubna Yeah, it just seems from, from the customers we talked to, um, they actually find the model is way faster used for agents versus operating on a different substrate.
- ▶ 7:50 unnamed speaker Uh, I mean, I'd be curious to say, you know, like, okay, if we were to ask you, like, what is model for, even at a high level? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:09 unnamed speaker So my first week at Cognition, I walked in, there was someone wearing a moto shirt. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:11 unnamed speaker My experience with Model, Charles, before he had joined Model, met this guy at a hackathon, and he really insisted. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:27 Akshat Bubna Well, also, actually, I'll, I'll take a step back and, um, maybe talk about, like, how, how people use model today. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:15 Akshat Bubna As you said, we're, we're fortunate to work with a number of, uh, customers of the frontier and, and grab some of our customers, uh, and, and they are taking the primitives we have, um, and trying to use them in very interesting ways, like… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:51 Akshat Bubna And our vision for, this is why we launched Auto Endpoints, is we want to make frontier level performance available to everyone. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:13 Akshat Bubna So, um, this is, I guess, going back to your modal is, is you touch the code, but sometimes people actually don't want to touch the code and they want to get started with an endpoint that works and has all the great performance and… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:22 unnamed speaker If someone was to do this themselves, what's the delta that you guys provide? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:57 unnamed speaker And obviously Real Inspect also is on Moto.
- ▶ 24:24 unnamed speaker Um, yeah, I mean, you know, I, I think, uh, all very bullish, like, you know, one of my reflections was also, I did not originally, so obviously when I met you guys, you weren't that much in the GPU game, and now you're all about, uh,… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:18 Akshat Bubna Or it can be, um, and you can add, like, a HTTP odd layer above it, but we have this thing called I-SXPN, which we haven't talked about, uh, which is this, like, overlay network using IPv six addresses, uh, so if modal containers, uh,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:28 Akshat Bubna When you run multi-handle training on, on modal, uh, RDMA, uh, I, I think Melanox, uh, is, or InfiniBand is, like, uh, is, you also use RDMA, uh, but basically it's a way to bypass, uh, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:06 Akshat Bubna We have a blog post on auto research, and model is, uh, yeah, like, uh, turns out to be a pretty good substrate for that. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:39 unnamed speaker Uh, yeah, I mean, so like, very good for modal, uh, and I think it's also very important that agents can spin up other agents, can spin up their own infrastructure, like very, like very good for you. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:06 Akshat Bubna We're playing around with releasing, like, a modal bench for, like, the harder things, uh, that the LMs cannot do yet, and, and maybe. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:50 unnamed speaker I think what's, what's interesting is like the next phase of Moto, like what, you know, do people expect from you, uh, now that you're sort of established and you're like a well-known computer player among all these leading companies.
- ▶ 45:15 unnamed speaker I'll end with a couple of your commentary on, like, the ecosystem outside of Modo. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:21 unnamed speaker I mean, I, I will say, like, just generally reflecting on, I don't know if, if, if there's other topics on model, but, like, just generally reflecting as an infra person, not as intense as you, but in that field, this is, like, been the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:42 Akshat Bubna But they, they use modal for all their inference, and that's because they have like a custom, they have completely custom model architecture, and that means that they have to be at the code level and tweak things that are not, um,
- ▶ 57:03 unnamed speaker Then my close is, I think, modal used to be a big bet on developer experience, and you've pivoted the team to agent experience.
- ▶ 58:13 Akshat Bubna Benchmark, modal bench, uh, to see where agents are lacking and actually literally add surface areas to a product if they're reaching for something, like, maybe this should just be a CLI.
AI Agents Need Computers: 74% MoM Growth, 850K/Day Runs, & New Agent Cloud — Ivan Burazin, Daytona
- ▶ 28:48 Shawn Wang Which is a very modal like thing.
⚡️Monty: the ultrafast Python interpreter by Agents for Agents — Samuel Colvin, Pydantic
- ▶ 4:35 Samuel Colvin Which is not too bad if you're a startup and you can just go and put your credit card into modal or E to B or Daytona or whoever.
Agent Inference at the "Speed of Light" — How NVIDIA moves like a $4.3 Trillion Startup
- ▶ 1:12:54 unnamed speaker And Moto's good at shutting down after some inactivity.
⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents
- ▶ 19:16 Jared Palmer Purcell, um, modal, uh, which I think lovable uses.
Terminal-Bench 2.0: the most impt coding agent benchmark of 2025 gets a v2! Launch + Q&A w/ founders
A Technical History of Generative Media
- ▶ 22:21 unnamed speaker Like, so for example, Moto has been talking a lot about their, uh, GPU snapshotting.
The AI Agenda: GPT5 leaks and the business of AI News — Steph Palazzolo, The Information
- ▶ 7:56 Shawn Wang I was actually going to start with the labs first, but I mean, since, since inference is coming up, uh, today's big news is modal is raising at a billion dollars. 3 times in the scene
⚡️The Future of Notebooks - with Akshay Agrawal of Marimo
- ▶ 22:17 Akshay Agrawal Currently they're running on modal.
SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute
- ▶ 9:11 Michael Swix (Swyx) And then you had some analysis of where every player sits in this, including CoreWeave, but also Together, and Modal, and all these other guys.
2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- ▶ 44:24 Shawn Wang So Suno itself is not GPU rich, but they're just doing the training on, on Moto, uh, who we've also talked to on, on the podcast. 2 times in the scene
A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
- ▶ 55:03 unnamed speaker Um, Eric from Modo also comes out of Spotify.
Truly Serverless Infra for AI Engineers - with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal
- ▶ 0:09 Shawn Wang Hey, and today we have in the studio Eric Bernhardsen from Modo. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:34 Shawn Wang Um, okay, we should probably move to, uh, make our way to its motto. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:59 Erik Bernhardsson And that was like the sort of very crude version of model.
- ▶ 13:51 Alessio Fanelli I think one of the magic things about Moto is at the very basic layers, like a Python function decorator. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:38 Alessio Fanelli So that's kind of made it a lot easier to just put a model, a model, like a AI model on model to run. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:45 Shawn Wang Uh, I, um, I may have betrayed my own biases because I don't, I don't really think about modal as, uh, for data teams anymore. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:02 Erik Bernhardsson Like, like what you, what, what does that graduation risk like look like for modal? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:08 Shawn Wang You already said that, um, ramp is, like, fine-tuning a hundred models at once simultaneously on, on modal. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:04 Shawn Wang Um, so, uh, the last part of Modo I wanted to touch on and,, and obviously feel free, I, I know you're, you're, uh, working on new features, um, uh, was the sandbox that was introduced, uh, last year. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:32 Erik Bernhardsson Uh, modal is like not necessarily like participating in that price war, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:29 Alessio Fanelli Um, yeah, what else is, uh, maybe underrated a model, something that people don't talk enough about, or, yeah, that we didn't cover in the discussion? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:43 Shawn Wang Like I think a lot of people at modal are competitive programmers. 5 times in the scene
The Four Wars of the AI Stack - Dec 2023 Recap
- ▶ 21:54 unnamed speaker Yeah, we can figure out a name, but we have Modal, Together, Replicate, um, there's a, there's a lot coming up.