Modular is an AI development and deployment platform built around the MAX engine and the Mojo programming language. The platform is designed to improve model serving performance across GPUs and CPUs while abstracting much of the hardware-specific complexity involved in deploying modern generative AI models.

MAX provides libraries and tools for running popular open models and exposing them through production-friendly interfaces, including OpenAI-compatible endpoints. The broader Modular ecosystem combines model execution, performance-oriented infrastructure, and Mojo, a language designed to bring systems-level performance to AI and numerical computing workflows.

The project is useful for AI infrastructure teams and developers who need efficient inference without maintaining separate low-level implementations for every hardware target. It is particularly relevant to self-hosted model serving, performance-sensitive deployments, and developers exploring a unified stack that spans high-level AI development and lower-level accelerated computing.