Modal

Modal is a working serverless platform for CPU/GPU workloads—not a research contribution or algorithmic innovation (low science), but it solves a real distribution problem: deploying Python code to distributed hardware without managing containers yourself. The signal is high because teams actually use it in production for ML inference, batch jobs, and data pipelines. Slop score reflects typical SaaS homepage marketing (AI agents! OpenAI integration!) without substance in the visible HTML, but...