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  "description": "Modal is an AI infrastructure platform that enables developers to run inference, training, and batch processing in the cloud. It features a serverless architecture designed for high-performance workloads with sub-second cold starts and instant autoscaling, allowing code to feel local while executing on remote GPUs.",
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    "founded": "2022",
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      "Generic Serverless Functions: Utilizing general-purpose serverless platforms like AWS Lambda, which often lack native GPU support and have long cold starts for large AI models.",
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