Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · 8 July 2026 · 58 min

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

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In this episode, Akshat Bubna, CTO of Modal, discusses the evolution of AI infrastructure tailored for agent experience, highlighting Modal's journey from a runtime platform to a specialized cloud for AI workloads. They explore challenges in scaling inference, sandboxing, speculative decoding, and the unique demands of agent-native primitives in modern AI applications.

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