Anthropic integration with Modal brings scalable compute to Claude Science | Modal Blog

This post details the integration of Modal's sandboxed code execution capabilities with Anthropic's Claude Science platform. It highlights how Modal provides scalable, on-demand compute for computationally intensive life sciences workloads, such as protein structure prediction, molecule design, and genome-wide CRISPR knockout screens. Key technical aspects include: fan-out execution across hundreds of Modal containers for parallel processing, per-step GPU access for heterogeneous pipelines, shared storage using Modal Volumes for large datasets and model checkpoints, and reproducible environments managed by Modal Images. The post also references Chai Discovery's use of Modal for similar bursty, hardware-agnostic workloads.