AI art used to be Modal’s #1 use case.

Now it’s flattening.

Not shrinking — just not growing anywhere near as fast as LLM inference, coding agents, or batch processing.

This tracks. The Ghibli selfie moment was fun. The ‘everyone’s making AI videos’ phase happened.

What’s replacing it at the top of the stack? Companies paying serious money to run serious workloads.

Consumer AI gets the headlines. B2B AI gets the revenue.

That ratio is only going one direction.