Modal is a computer
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What is Modal? A machine that runs programs of arithmetic & logic operations on information.
I am often asked “What is Modal?” People want a simple, quick, intuitive answer, so I end up reaching for analogies to other products and services. I don’t like most of them. “Modal is Uber for compute” — but 1) it’s not 2016 anymore and 2) we don’t operate a two-sided open market. “Modal is a neocloud” — but we don’t operate hardware and you don’t rent machines directly. “Modal is an inference provider” — but we don’t sell tokens, we sell processor-seconds and byte-seconds you can use to provide inference services. We're closer to an “inference provider provider”. “Modal is AI…
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