modal-07fa03c3·3 events·first seen Aliases: Modal
Latent Space interviews Modal co-founder and CTO Akshat Bubna on why AI infrastructure must evolve to support agentic workloads, drawing on two years of lessons building what Modal calls the 'agent cloud.' The conversation covers why Agent Experience is becoming viable now and what Modal has learned operating at scale. This is a practitioner-level perspective from a company building infrastructure specifically for AI agents.
Anthropic released Claude Science in beta, an AI-powered research environment integrating over 60 curated scientific tools and databases for genomics, proteomics, structural biology, and cheminformatics. The platform features a coordinating agent with specialist sub-agents, a reviewer agent for citation and calculation checking, reproducible auditable artifacts, and flexible compute management across local machines, HPC clusters, and on-demand GPUs. It integrates with NVIDIA's BioNeMo Agent Toolkit, connecting to models like Evo 2, Boltz-2, and OpenFold3. Available to Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users, this represents Anthropic's most significant expansion into scientific AI tooling.
Latent Space's AINews highlights a quiet news day by featuring recent fundraising rounds for three AI infrastructure companies: Exa (AI-native search/retrieval), Modal (serverless GPU compute), and TurboPuffer (vector database). All three have reached or are approaching unicorn valuations, signaling continued investor appetite for AI infrastructure tooling. The piece is a brief commentary aggregating these business milestones rather than a deep technical analysis.