At a certain point between building Apple’s developer tools , leading a core part of Google’s AI infrastructure team, and clashing with Elon Musk during a stint as Tesla’s Autopilot chief, Chris Lattner’s vision for his life’s work started to come into focus. AI was taking over the world, and demand was growing for the chips that powered it. But the software stack for those chips was dominated by just a few big companies. Would developers be able to easily run their code across all the different chips dotting the AI landscape?

Lattner’s answer to that question is Modular, a software startup he founded in 2022 with his former Google colleague Tim Davis. Modular makes a unifying software layer that helps cloud businesses squeeze as much juice as possible out of GPUs and CPUs—the high-p

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