modprobe fuse doesn't seem to load module

I'm trying to load the fuse kernel module but for some reason it seems like it's not getting loaded. But I also don't get any error message. Can someone explain to me what's going on?

root@my-host:~# modprobe fuse
root@my-host:~# echo $?
0
root@my-host:~# lsmod | grep fuse 
root@my-host:~# modinfo fuse
modinfo: ERROR: Module fuse not found.
root@my-host:~# ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/fs/fuse/
cuse.ko
root@my-host:~#

I'm on a cloud VM:

root@my-host:~# uname -r
4.15.0-213-generic
root@my-host:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS
Release:	18.04
Codename:	bionic

I also rebooted the host before I ran these commands to make sure the correct kernel is running. ---- EDIT: In response to the comments I ran these commands:

root@my-host:~# grep fuse /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.builtin
kernel/fs/fuse/fuse.ko
root@my-host:~# systemd-detect-virt
kvm