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A cloud platform for deploying and serving AI and general compute workloads.
Why it's here
Placed in Assess: 2 article(s) of evidence from 2 source(s), led by product launches, with 2 in the last 30 days. Confidence 37%.
Evidence (2)
- 7Simon Willison·7/28/2026securityModal CTO says a customer exposed an unauthenticated code-execution endpoint
Modal CTO Akshat Bubna said a customer had published an unauthenticated endpoint that let anyone on the internet run code in their sandboxes. He said Modal’s platform and isolation were not compromised, and that the abuse came from the exposed customer endpoint.
- 3Hacker News·7/28/2026product_launchOpen model use with a self-hosted endpoint
The author describes setting up opencode to work with a personal inference endpoint on Modal and using Kimi K3, saying the experience felt simpler and more freeing than using hosted commercial AI plans. The piece is a first-person impression of the convenience and control of running an open model on infrastructure the user owns.