Organization
Modular
Developer platform · Inference provider · Los Altos, California
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
Key facts
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 |
Related open artifacts
Frameworks
- MojoSoftwareAvailability: Public
Runtimes
- MAX (Modular)SoftwareAvailability: Public
Organizational relationships
- Parent organization: Qualcomm (Subsidiary)
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 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.
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.
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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