Why AI Infrastructure must evolve for Agent Experience — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO
Latent Space
Modal raised $355 million in Series C funding as the cloud infrastructure company shifts its focus from supporting developers to supporting AI agents. The platform now emphasizes agent-native primitives like sandboxes, elastic inference, and GPU snapshotting instead of traditional Kubernetes-based infrastructure. This change means AI applications require tighter, more observable infrastructure since agents cannot rely on human developers to interpret dashboards or fill in missing context when things break.
Why it matters
2 years after our first coverage, we return with Modal's other cofounder to explore why Agent Experience is working now, and everything they have learned building the new agent cloud.
