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Modal CEO: AI Has Entered a ‘New Era of Software’

AI cloud startup Modal has raised $750 million at a $15.75 billion post-money valuation as demand surges for the infrastructure needed to build and run AI applications. CEO Erik Bernhardsson discusses the company’s more than 3 billion AI sandboxes, growing demand for inference and reinforcement learning, and why increasingly capable agents will need secure virtual…

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AI cloud startup Modal has raised $750 million at a $15.75 billion post-money valuation as demand surges for the infrastructure needed to build and run AI applications. CEO Erik Bernhardsson discusses the company’s more than 3 billion AI sandboxes, growing demand for inference and reinforcement learning, and why increasingly capable agents will need secure virtual environments where they can execute code and eventually take on longer-running tasks. He joins Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.”
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3 Comments

  1. @Manas-ry6f

    October 14, 2026 at 2:21 pm

    are these companies really worth so many billions?

    • @OlaFosheimGrstad

      October 14, 2026 at 4:09 pm

      It is commoditized soon…

  2. @118Columbus

    October 14, 2026 at 6:41 pm

    Each sandbox is worth $10 million

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