Modal
A serverless cloud platform for running AI and ML workloads.
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How Modal compares
4 creators weighed in
Fireworks AI
Direct rival
AI inference cloud platform
Both are open-source model inference clouds running in America, named together as key players in that space.
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Both are open-source model inference clouds running in America, named together as key players in that space.
"When we look at a Fireworks AI, I think Baseten and Modal will do well too."
Fireworks AI, Baseten
"We should also invest in like lower level kind of like infrastructure primitives. Modal, incredible company. Temporal, incredible company."
Overlaps with Fireworks AI on some things
"These open-source inference clouds that monetize inference here in America — Fireworks, Base10, Modal, Together — the picture looks very different when you see that."
Mentioned alongside Fireworks, Base10, and Together as inference cloud providers
"Others like Modal at $10 billion, Base10 at $10 billion. These are the inference providers of open-source models."
Named alongside Fireworks and Base10 as open-source model inference providers
What creators say
"I got it up and running on my own dedicated GPUs on Modal. It took less than an hour to get a fully functioning Kimi thinking and working 24/7. It's a little pricey, but it's like $55 an hour on Modal to run at full throttle. You can spin up 100 i..."
More from Dave Blundin →"When we look at a Fireworks AI, I think Baseten and Modal will do well too."
More from Harry Stebbings →"We should also invest in like lower level kind of like infrastructure primitives. Modal, incredible company. Temporal, incredible company."
More from Harrison Chase →"We aggregate capacity from maybe 25 clouds today and it's painful, and they're all somewhat different. But I think that's also the value prop of using Modal for our customers. You don't have to deal with that nonsense. We add a pretty rich softwar..."
More from Thomas Neckel →
"Together AI, Modal, Baseten are all running at billion dollar run rates running open models."
More from Emad Mostaque →+1 more mention from Emad
"Others like Modal at $10 billion, Base10 at $10 billion. These are the inference providers of open-source models."
"The correct answer was just keep buying inference. You have Modal, Baseten, Fireworks, fal, Together, and it's just all worked."
More from Jack Altman →"It's either BaseTen or Modal right now. Those are the first two that come to mind."
More from Jean-Denis Grèze →"These open-source inference clouds that monetize inference here in America — Fireworks, Base10, Modal, Together — the picture looks very different when you see that."
More from Gavin Baker →"Anduril, Etched, Cognition, SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Seronic, Modal. So yeah, the list goes on."
More from Geoff Woo →"We just uh announced a C round today which is very exciting. Racing uh 355 million. So general catalyst led it together with Redpoint."
More from Eric Schmidt →"You can also run it on Modal as like a serverless service as well."
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