{"id":1009210,"date":"2026-05-22T09:32:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009210"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:22:12","slug":"modal-labs-valued-at-4-65-billion-as-ai-coding-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/22\/modal-labs-valued-at-4-65-billion-as-ai-coding-takes-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Modal Labs valued at $4.65 billion as AI coding takes off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI startup Modal raised $355 million in a \u200bnew round of financing, valuing \u200bthe company at $4.65 billion, CEO Erik Bernhardsson told \u200bReuters. <\/p>\n<p>AI startups have been whipped by two shifts this year: the surge in AI coding and the increasing scarcity of computing power. Modal Labs is confronting both. <\/p>\n<p>The \u200cstartup helps \u2060AI companies \u2060access the chips they need to run AI tools, called inference. It also has a sandbox product that allows developers to test their code, increasingly created through AI, before embedding it in their products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI startup Modal raised $355 million in a \u200bnew round of financing, valuing \u200bthe company at $4.65 billion, CEO Erik Bernhardsson told \u200bReuters. AI startups have been whipped by two shifts this year: the surge in AI coding and the increasing scarcity of computing power. Modal Labs is confronting both. The \u200cstartup helps \u2060AI companies \u2060access the chips they need to run AI tools, called inference. It also has a sandbox product that allows developers to test their code, increasingly created through AI, before embedding it in their products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009229,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009210\/revisions\/1009229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}