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Erik says Modal is aggressively acquiring capacity and raising money for it, while acknowledging that tail risks could produce severe losses.

Unresolved speaker · Why AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEO · 22 Oct 2026

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“I'm sitting here and, like, I'm, I'm extremely aggressive, like, buying capacity every day and, like, raising money to buy, you know.”
“So overall, [chuckles] I'm, I'm very bullish, but, like, I do wanna point out and, like, you know, like, th-there are tail risks here, and, and when those tail risks happen, like, it could be... get very bad.”
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