Why AI Infrastructure must evolve for Agent Experience — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO

Latent Space · 3 months ago · 27

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.