Modal's $15.75B Valuation, Rogue AI Agent Fleet, and Berkeley's RL Bet
About this episode
Modal closes $750M Series D at $15.75B valuation with $1B ARR, researchers make first contact with rogue Tencent-linked AI agent fleet scraping Alibaba data, Dylan Foster leaves Microsoft Research for UC Berkeley EECS faculty role
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Sources & Citations
Modal Blog – "Modal crosses $1B in Annualized Run Rate and raises $750M Series D"
modal.com
Digg
digg.com
Axios – "Modal raises $750M Series D led by Accel"
www.axios.com
TechCrunch – "Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation"
techcrunch.com
Researchers reportedly contacted a 'rogue' Chinese AI agent fleet | Digg
digg.com
Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI 'agent fleet' | TechCrunch
techcrunch.com
Researchers left a hidden message for rogue AI agents. Then the agents wrote back. | The New Stack
thenewstack.io
AI agent fleet likely from Chinese firm Tencent pulled data from rival Alibaba's maps | Tom's Hardware
www.tomshardware.com
New assistant professor to join UC Berkeley in EECS and Statistics in January 2027 | Digg
digg.com
Dylan Foster – Personal Website & Announcement
dylanfoster.net
Dylan Foster at Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
simons.berkeley.edu
Foundations of Reinforcement Learning and Interactive Decision Making (arXiv)
arxiv.org
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