Why AI Infrastructure must evolve for Agent Experience — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
- Published
- July 8, 2026
- Duration
- 57:55
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Jul 22, 2026
Discusses inference.
Summary
We’ve been running a bit of an Agent Cloud series surveying all the top inference/compute/cloud providers, from Databricks to Daytona to Railway and, even further back, E2B, but we’re excited to conclude this series returning to Modal, which has just raised a monster $355M Series C.The cloud was built for developers. But agents are now changing that.The o…
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Show notes
We’ve been running a bit of an Agent Cloud series surveying all the top inference/compute/cloud providers, from Databricks to Daytona to Railway and, even further back, E2B, but we’re excited to conclude this series returning to Modal, which has just raised a monster $355M Series C.The cloud was built for developers. But agents are now changing that.The old infra stack was designed for a human who could read docs, reason through YAML, and understand dashboards to figure out what they need when s
Themes
- inference