# Modular

> Modular is the Silicon Valley startup building AI's unified compute layer - a software stack that lets developers run large AI models fast on any hardware, not just NVIDIA. Founded in 2022 by compiler icon Chris Lattner (creator of LLVM and Swift) and TensorFlow Lite co-creator Tim Davis, it ships the Mojo programming language, the MAX inference platform, and the Mammoth orchestrator. It reached a $1.6 billion valuation in 2025 and was acquired by Qualcomm in 2026.

- **Founded:** 2022
- **Headquarters:** Los Altos, California, United States
- **Founders:** Chris Lattner (CEO & Co-Founder), Tim Davis (President & Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~130+ employees as of its 2025 Series C (aggregator estimates run higher).
- **Products:** Mojo, MAX (Modular Accelerated Xecution), Mammoth
- **Notable:** Built a genuinely hardware-neutral AI compute stack spanning NVIDIA, AMD, Apple, and other silicon., Grew Mojo to 100,000+ developers across 100+ countries and a stable 1.0 release in 2026., Went from stealth (2022) to a $1.6B valuation (2025) to a ~$4B acquisition by Qualcomm (2026) in about 4.5 years.

## Products & services

- **Mojo** — A systems programming language that pairs Python-like syntax with C/Rust-level performance and memory safety, designed as a superset of Python and built for AI and GPU programming across heterogeneous hardware. Standard library open-sourced in 2024; reached a stable 1.0 in 2026.
- **MAX (Modular Accelerated Xecution)** — A generative-AI serving framework and inference engine with OpenAI-compatible endpoints that runs hundreds of pre-optimized models with high performance across NVIDIA, AMD, and other hardware.
- **Mammoth** — A Kubernetes-native control plane and scheduler for distributed AI serving, built to push GPU cluster utilization far higher than typical deployments.

## Achievements

- Built a genuinely hardware-neutral AI compute stack spanning NVIDIA, AMD, Apple, and other silicon.
- Grew Mojo to 100,000+ developers across 100+ countries and a stable 1.0 release in 2026.
- Went from stealth (2022) to a $1.6B valuation (2025) to a ~$4B acquisition by Qualcomm (2026) in about 4.5 years.
- Founded by Chris Lattner, creator of LLVM, Clang, and Swift, and co-creator of MLIR.

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Raised a $250M Series C at a $1.6B valuation to scale its unified AI compute layer, unveiling the Mammoth orchestrator.
- **2026-06** — Qualcomm announced its acquisition of Modular in an all-stock deal valued at roughly $3.9-4 billion; the deal closed in July 2026.
- **2026-08** — Shipped Modular 26.5 with Mojo 1.0, marking API stability for the language.

## Links

- Website: https://www.modular.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/modular-ai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/modular_ai
- GitHub: https://github.com/modular/modular
- YouTube: https://youtube.com/@modularinc

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Last updated: 2026-08-19