Modal has worked intermittently on a training product for years, while focusing exclusively on inference during its smaller-company period.

“Like, what changed in the market? I mean, we, we've been building a training product for multiple years, so- Oh, okay... you know, on and off. So, so we, we-- I, I wouldn't say we're like we've never been focused on it.”

“But it's like, it's like one of those things where, like... I mean, now we're like a hundred and fifty engineers but, you know, a year or two ago we, we were a much smaller number of engineers and so...”

“But just virtue of, you know, being smaller, we had to focus a little bit more, and so inference became, like, our sole focus and, and was our sole focus for many years. Yeah. But we're bigger now.”