Modal created Sandboxes in response to the insight that code-generating language models need an environment in which to run their code.

“We realized a lot of people we talked to were using LMS to output code. This is, like, me and Akshat talking over lunch one day. We're like, "Maybe they need a place to run that code."”

“And, and, and realized, like, actually, we kinda have, like, a lot of the infrastructure already to just take code and run it, 'cause we've already built the primitives for, like, managing containers and isolation.”