Modal

Compute shouldn’t be the bottleneck for your next big idea. We're launching Modal for Builders, a program that provides compute credits to builders working on ambitious AI projects. Have a demo you’ve been wanting to build? A research question you want to explore? Or another idea that needs compute? We’d like to hear about it. Apply with your idea and an estimate of the compute you’ll need. Projects may also be featured on Modal’s social channels. Some projects we’ve backed in the past:

Vmax is building Campaign, a platform for RL task generation using self-play. We worked with them to teach agents to use the Modal SDK, translating Python code into working Modal workloads by generating tasks that target their failure modes. Modal's elastic compute lets them run and check solutions, from GPU calculations to inference endpoints that reuse state across requests.

Frontier AI data lab @SnorkelAI uses Modal Sandboxes and Modal Inference to power millions of agent evals each month. Snorkel uses evals to test agents on rigorous and diverse benchmarks ranging from coding to infrastructure eng through data science. Modal lets them flexibly serve open-weight models and use a mix of CPU and GPU Sandboxes at scale, cutting their sandbox bill by 20%.