Ep 21: Modal CEO Erik Bernhardsson on Bringing Development to the Cloud, the GPU Market, and GenAI Music
Podcast: Unsupervised Learning with Jacob EffronPublished On: Tue Oct 31 2023
Description: Jacob and Pat sit down with Erik Bernhardsson, the founder of Modal Labs, a data infrastructure company providing GPU compute to data teams. On this episode we discussed Erik’s thoughts on the AI chip market, the most popular GenAI use cases on Modal, and even Oracle Cloud’s resurgence in the AI start-up market. 0:00 intro0:45 motivation for founding Modal6:35 advantages that Modal gives developers9:21 early applications built with Modal11:58 challenges for AI developers16:31 GPU access today20:09 Vector DB companies24:55 why is cloud adoption so slow?31:30 Oracle Cloud39:22 AI music generation42:05 over-hyped/under-hyped43:26 what Erik wishes he knew when starting Modal45:53 episode debrief With your co-hosts: @ericabrescia - Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare) @patrickachase - Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn @jacobeffron - Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health @jordan_segall - Partner at Redpoint
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