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The agent-sandbox wars: 23 companies and a contested substrate

Modal raised $355M at $4.65B selling AI agents a computer, as do 22 other companies; this map of the sandbox race shows who runs Firecracker, who doesn't, and why the substrate war is nearly settled while everything above it is wide open.