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Why AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEO

aired Oct 22, 2026
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Summary

1 [on-hold music] Thanks for coming on, Erik Brynjolfsson from Modal.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, know, think, including: Could you explain, uh, the business a little bit and maybe how you got here?.

Key takeaways
  1. 01So we, uh, we build, uh
  2. 022 The easiest way to put it is we build AI infrastructure
  3. 033 So we, we offer a bunch of compute, a, a compute platform and a storage platform that enables a lot of customers like Decagon and Suno and Runway and Co-Cognition and many others
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