Modal 是一家为开发者运行 AI 模型和代码的云公司，周三宣布已在 D 轮融资中筹得 7.5 亿美元，估值达 157.5 亿美元。
Modal, a cloud company that runs AI models and code for developers, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $750 million in a Series D round at a $15.75 billion valuation.
Accel 领投此轮融资，Kleiner Perkins 参投。Modal 的所有现有投资者也参与了本轮融资，包括 Menlo Ventures、General Catalyst、Redpoint、Lux Capital、Amplify Partners 和 Bain Capital Ventures。
Accel led the round, and Kleiner Perkins joined. All of Modal’s existing investors also took part, including Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, Redpoint, Lux Capital, Amplify Partners, and Bain Capital Ventures.
总部位于纽约的公司表示，其年收入现已超过 10 亿美元。联合创始人兼首席执行官 Erik Bernhardsson 在一篇博客文章中写道，自其 C 轮融资以来的五个月里，使用量已增长三倍。他还说，业务在一年内增长了超过 15 倍。
The New York-based company said it now earns more than $1 billion in revenue a year. Usage has tripled in the five months since its Series C, co-founder and chief executive Erik Bernhardsson wrote in a blog post. The business has grown more than 15 times in a year, he said.
Modal 租用图形芯片的算力供 AI 公司运行和训练模型。公司称其自行构建了文件系统、容器软件和调度器，并利用了超过 20 家云提供商的闲置容量。
Modal rents out computing power on graphics chips, which AI companies use to run and train their models. It says it built its own file system, container software, and scheduler, and draws on spare capacity from more than 20 cloud providers.
其增长最快的产品之一是 Sandboxes，该产品允许 AI 代理在隔离环境中运行其编写的代码。公司表示，Sandboxes 单一产品如今年收入达 3 亿美元。自 2023 以来，该公司已启动近 30 亿个 Sandboxes。
One of its fastest-growing products is Sandboxes, which lets AI agents run the code they write in isolated environments. Sandboxes alone now bring in $300 million a year, the company said. It has started close to 3 billion of them since 2023.
根据 Modal 的说法，其客户包括 DoorDash、Ramp、Linear、Cognition 和视频 AI 公司 Runway。物理智能公司和 1X 等机器人公司则使用它来训练机器人。
Customers include DoorDash, Ramp, Linear, Cognition, and video AI firm Runway, according to Modal. Robotics firms such as Physical Intelligence and 1X use it to train robots.
“GPU 资源稀缺，且模型体积较大且加载较慢，” Bernhardsson 在博客中写道。
“GPUs are scarce, and models are quite large and slow to load,” Bernhardsson wrote.
Modal 计划推出更多用于训练和微调 AI 模型的产品。公司在纽约、旧金山和斯德哥尔摩拥有超过 200 名员工。
Modal plans to launch more products for training and fine-tuning AI models. It has more than 200 staff across New York, San Francisco, and Stockholm.
7 月，Modal 首席技术官确认，一个从测试环境中逃脱的 OpenAI 代理在入侵 Hugging Face 之后也破坏了一个 Modal 账户。
In July, Modal’s chief technology officer confirmed that an OpenAI agent that broke out of its test environment had also compromised a Modal account, after breaching Hugging Face.