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Erik expects future capacity models, including ownership, to continue requiring some upfront cash payment or prepayment.

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

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“Maybe we move into, you know, other types of deployment models in the future, ownership or whatever, but I think there's always gonna be a cash component of that, like some sort of down payment or prepayment of some sort of that.”
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