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How do you guarantee that your software is portable, runs reliably, and scales easily in production environments? The short answer is: Use containers. Container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes are popular tools for building and deploying software applications, but until recently they were considered exotic infrastructure for IT/Ops experts. 

AI systems take an incredible amount of time to build and get right - I know because I have helped scale some of the largest AI systems in the world, which have directly and indirectly impacted billions of people. If I step back and reflect briefly - we were promised mass production self-driving cars 10+ years ago, and yet we still barely have any autonomous vehicles on the road today.

Since our launch of the Mojo programming language on May 2nd, more than 120K+ developers have signed up to use the Mojo Playground and 19K+ developers actively discuss Mojo on Discord and GitHub. Today, we’re excited to announce the next big step in Mojo’s evolution: Mojo is now available for local download – beginning with Linux systems, and adding Mac and Windows in coming releases.

We are excited to announce that we have raised $100 million in new funding, led by General Catalyst and filled by existing investors GV (Google Ventures), SV Angel, Greylock, and Factory. This second round of funding follows our first $30 million round from last year and will enable us to supercharge our vision for the future of AI infrastructure for the world's developers.

Learning a new programming language is hard. You have to learn new syntax, keywords, and best practices, all of which can be frustrating when you’re just starting. In this blog post, I want to share a gentle introduction to Mojo from a Python programmer’s perspective.

‍On May 2nd, we announced our next-generation AI developer platform with two exciting breakthrough technologies — the Mojo programming language and the Modular AI Engine. In just over two months, more than 110k developers have signed up for the Mojo Playground to learn Mojo and experience its performance firsthand, over 30k developers have signed up to our waitlist for the AI engine, and our Modular community on Discord has grown to 17k developers! We’re incredibly excited to see developers sharing their experience with Mojo, providing product feedback, and learning from each other.

Today’s AI infrastructure is difficult to evaluate - so many converge on simple and quantifiable metrics like QPS, Latency and Throughput. This is one reason why today’s AI industry is rife with bespoke tools that provide high performance on benchmarks but have significant usability challenges in real-world AI deployment scenarios.

We’re very excited about the positive reception of Mojo since its launch as well as the community of people building around it. Given new Large Language Model (LLM) powered developer tools like Copilot and Ghostwriter, many developers are wondering about the future of programming – do programming languages still matter when AI writes the code?

A few weeks ago, we announced the world’s fastest unified AI inference engine. The Modular AI Engine provides significant usability, portability, and performance gains for the leading AI frameworks — PyTorch and TensorFlow — and delivers world-leading execution performance for all cloud-available CPU architectures.

Last week, we launched Modular to the world after more than 16 months in stealth. We started Modular with a deep conviction — after 6+ years of building and scaling AI infrastructure to billions of users and 20+ years of building foundational compute infrastructure — it was clear the world needed a better path forward. Everyone wants less complexity, better access to compute and hardware, and the ability to develop and deploy AI faster.