Modal initially aimed to make running code in the cloud easy across GPU, AI, machine-learning, and data workloads.

“But, but like, you know, I never got back to it, long story short, and, and, and ended up building Modal, which is like the, the focus was more like, let's just figure out a way to make it easy to run code in the compu- i-in the cloud.”

“And, and the focus was- Initially, like fairly general purpose, and it actually in a way, like it's always we've kinda gone full circle more recently. But, but we, we focused on so many different applications.”

“It's kind of the idea was like, let's just make it super easy to run code in the c- in, in the cloud, could be GPU code, could AI, machine learning, could also be like data stuff.”