Why AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEO
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
- Published
- October 22, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 25m
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Oct 25, 2026
Discusses ai.
Summary
Warm welcome to Basil Chatha, our newest cohost from the Forward Deployed side of the AI Engineering world! We’ll be ramping up a new show with him and couldn’t pass up an interview with Modal’s CEO Eric on the occasion of their monster Series D! Two years ago, we spoke with Erik Bernhardsson about his vision for truly serverless AI infrastructure: develo…
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Warm welcome to Basil Chatha, our newest cohost from the Forward Deployed side of the AI Engineering world! We’ll be ramping up a new show with him and couldn’t pass up an interview with Modal’s CEO Eric on the occasion of their monster Series D! Two years ago, we spoke with Erik Bernhardsson about his vision for truly serverless AI infrastructure: developers should be able to run code without provisioning clusters, predicting load, or paying for idle resources. CTO Akshat then joined us to talk
Themes
- ai