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title:

Modal Shifts Strategy to Agent-First Cloud Infrastructure

date: 2026-07-08
tags: [#news, #devops ]
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Following a $355 million Series C round, Modal is evolving its cloud platform to prioritize agent experience over traditional developer workflows. The infrastructure now focuses on high-performance, bursty operations like automated sandboxes and elastic inference to support autonomous agents that write and manage their own code.