Modal 获 16 亿美元 D 轮融资，估值达 160 亿美元
原标题：[AINews] Modal’s $1B ARR, $16B Series D makes it NYC’s newest AI Infra Decacorn, 3x usage and 3x valuation in 5 months, 15x in 1 yr
AI 摘要
Modal 完成 16 亿美元 D 轮融资，估值达 160 亿美元，成为纽约最新的 AI 基础设施独角兽，5 个月内使用量和估值均增长 3 倍，一年内增长 15 倍。其 Sandboxes 产品年收入达 3 亿美元，已启动近 30 亿个沙箱，可扩展至百万并发。此外，Google 开始更广泛地推出 Gemini 4 Argon，面向编程、金融、法律、网络安全和科学领域，但 Neel Nanda 评估其可监控性显著低于以往模型。
正文节选
Today Modal switches from our infra unicorn category to infra decacorn. We last caught up with Modal CTO Akshat in July: On the last day of AIE NYC, Akshat had a lot to share about the kind of infrastructure agents are needing for “millions of concurrent sandboxes, launch RDMA clusters securely and elastically for distributed training, train state of the art speculators for inference, build a whole new sandbox runtime, and more”: As Erik notes in his fundraise post: We launched Sandboxes in 2023