Organization
Modular
Modular is a developer platform company and inference provider headquartered in Los Altos, California21. This catalog lists 2 software projects from Modular, under licenses including the Apache License 2.0 with LLVM Exceptions (open-source MAX components in the modular repository) and the Modular Community License (MAX package usage and distribution).
Documented roles: Developer platform · Inference provider
Subsidiary of Qualcomm
Modular develops the Mojo programming language and MAX, a framework for serving and building AI models on CPUs, GPUs, and other accelerators, and operates Modular Cloud, a hosted inference service. Qualcomm completed its acquisition of Modular in July 2026.15413
Status: Qualcomm Incorporated completed its acquisition of Modular Inc in July 2026. Qualcomm's quarterly report for the period ended June 28, 2026 gives July 28, 2026 as the completion date; the Qualcomm and Modular announcements are dated July 29, 2026. Both announcements say Mojo, MAX, and Modular Cloud continue as products and brands.141312
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Key facts
- Ownership (separate from openness)
- Unit of another organization
Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.
- Legal form
- Unknown
- Founded
- Unknown
- Sectors
- Cloud
What is and isn’t public
Mojo's compiler, standard library, and tooling, and MAX's Python API, model pipelines, and GPU kernels, are published in Modular's GitHub repository under the Apache License 2.0 with LLVM exceptions. The MAX package as a whole is licensed under the Modular Community License, and Modular Cloud is a paid hosted service.89354
Products
No hosted model products are recorded for this organization.
Other products
| Product | Kind | Documented delivery and access | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modular Cloud (external site: modular.com) | Inference service | Hosted inference for open and custom models, with shared endpoints billed per token, dedicated endpoints billed per minute, and an option to deploy in a customer's own AWS, GCP, or Azure account; sign-up is through the Modular console.4 | Sep 29, 2026 |
| MAX (external site: max.modular.com) | Developer tool | Downloadable framework, installed with uv, pip, or pixi, for serving models through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint and writing model pipelines and GPU kernels. The MAX package is licensed under the Modular Community License.563 | Sep 29, 2026 |
| Mojo (external site: mojolang.org) | Developer tool | Programming language installed as a Python or conda package (for example with uv or pixi); its compiler, standard library, and tooling are published under the Apache License 2.0 with LLVM exceptions.73 | Sep 29, 2026 |
Cataloged artifacts
Frameworks
- MojoSoftwareAvailability: Public
Runtimes
- MAX (Modular)SoftwareAvailability: Public
Organizational relationships
- Parent organization: Qualcomm (Subsidiary)
Fact-level relationship verification pending.
Units and subsidiaries have their own records and are counted separately from their parent.
Notable documented facts
- At its ModCon conference on August 18, 2026, Modular announced that the full Mojo language, including the compiler and tooling, was open source, and that the MAX license no longer contained device usage restrictions. Its September 17, 2026 release post said the Mojo compiler had begun accepting outside contributions.1011
In the news
Modular 26.6 and Mojo 1.1 open the Mojo compiler to outside contributions
Modular released MAX 26.6 and Mojo 1.1 on September 17, 2026, and said it is now accepting contributions to the Mojo compiler, which it open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license at ModCon in August. Modular also says it has migrated its internal issues to public GitHub issues. The release notes say Mojo 1.1 marks more standard library APIs as stable, including String, SIMD and List, and removes deprecated items such as the fn and alias keywords. MAX 26.6 adds an audio generation pipeline that launches with support for MiniMax-Music3, and support for Thinking Machines' Inkling architecture. USASI has not tested this release.
Modular open-sources the Mojo compiler and tooling
At its ModCon conference on August 18, 2026, Modular announced that the full Mojo language, including the compiler and tooling, is open source; the modular repository that holds it is licensed under Apache 2.0 with LLVM exceptions, while the prebuilt mojo package on PyPI declares a separate Modular license. Modular also said the MAX license no longer contains device usage restrictions. On September 17 it said the Mojo compiler had begun accepting outside contributions.
Modular releases Mojo 1.0 alongside MAX 26.5
Modular released Mojo 1.0 with its Modular 26.5 release on August 11, 2026. Modular's announcement says that during the 1.x timeframe changes should be primarily additive, and the GitHub release notes say Modular has started marking a small set of standard library APIs as stable. The notes warn of more breaking changes than usual, saying nearly every one ships with a deprecated alias and a compiler fix-it. In MAX 26.5, most GPU programming APIs moved out of the Mojo standard library into a new top-level max package, and Apple silicon GPU support was extended back to M1 devices. USASI has not tested this release.
Qualcomm completes its acquisition of Modular
Qualcomm completed its acquisition of Modular Inc on July 28, 2026, according to its quarterly report, and the closing was announced on July 29. Modular's announcement says Mojo, MAX, and Modular Cloud continue as products and brands, supported through Qualcomm Technologies. The Modular record now lists Qualcomm as its parent company, and Modular remains the maintainer of the Mojo and MAX records.
What this catalog does not know
- Founding date: not documented in the sources reviewed.
- Official careers page: not verified by this catalog.
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U.S. eligibility
Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters
Modular's terms of service name Modular Inc with offices at a Los Altos, California address, and its about page says the company is headquartered in Silicon Valley. Since July 2026 Modular has been owned by Qualcomm Incorporated, which its Form 10-Q lists as a Delaware corporation with principal executive offices in San Diego, California. Both the company's own documented location and its parent are in the United States.211412
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