Ep 21: Modal CEO Erik Bernhardsson on Bringing Development to the Cloud, the GPU Market, and GenAI Music
Jacob and Pat sit down with Erik Bernhardsson, the founder of Modal Labs, a data infrastructure company providing GPU compute to data teams. On this episode we discussed Erik’s thoughts on the AI chip market, the most popular GenAI use cases on Modal, and even Oracle Cloud’s resurgence in the AI start-up market.
Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron · Erik Bernhardsson, Jacob Effron, Patrick Chase
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Show Notes
Jacob and Pat sit down with Erik Bernhardsson, the founder of Modal Labs, a data infrastructure company providing GPU compute to data teams. On this episode we discussed Erik’s thoughts on the AI chip market, the most popular GenAI use cases on Modal, and even Oracle Cloud’s resurgence in the AI start-up market.
0:00 intro
0:45 motivation for founding Modal
6:35 advantages that Modal gives developers
9:21 early applications built with Modal
11:58 challenges for AI developers
16:31 GPU access today
20:09 Vector DB companies
24:55 why is cloud adoption so slow?
31:30 Oracle Cloud
39:22 AI music generation
42:05 over-hyped/under-hyped
43:26 what Erik wishes he knew when starting Modal
45:53 episode debrief
With your co-hosts:
@ericabrescia
- Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare)
@patrickachase
- Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn
@jacobeffron
- Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health
@jordan_segall
- Partner at Redpoint