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GPU Memory Snapshots: Supercharging Sub-second Startup
Using GPU snapshots to enable sub-second container startup times.
What is an AI code sandbox?
AI code sandboxes are seeing an explosion of adoption as the volume of LLM-generated code in the world grows.
Transcribe speech 100x faster and 100x cheaper with open models
How we transcribed one week of audio in one minute for under one dollar.
Latest in Engineering
GPU Memory Snapshots: Supercharging Sub-second Startup
Using GPU snapshots to enable sub-second container startup times.
Transcribe speech 100x faster and 100x cheaper with open models
How we transcribed one week of audio in one minute for under one dollar.
Dollars per token considered harmful
Engineers of language model applications should think about requests, not tokens.
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Product updates: multi-node training clusters, B200 and H200s, and Client 1.0 release
Welcome to another round of Modal Product Updates! Here's what's new this month.
Jamsocket is joining Modal
Jamsocket, a backend platform for building sync engines, is joining Modal.
Introducing: Modal 1.0
We've released v1.0 of the Modal client, marking a new milestone of maturity and stability for our platform.
Latest in Customer Stories
Powering 250,000 Lovable app creations in a weekend
During a single weekend event, Lovable users built 250,000 new applications, all running in isolated development environments. Lovable used Modal to generate 1 million code sandboxes—with 20,000 running concurrently at peak—over just 48 hours.
How Quora uses Modal to run thousands of Python sandboxes simultaneously
Quora is building Poe, a platform where anyone can deploy a public AI chatbot. Quora uses Modal Sandboxes at scale to safely run LLM-generated code in the context of user chats.
How Lemon Slice built real-time generative video with Modal and Daily
Modal + Daily + Pipecat is the best-in-class infra stack for real-time inference pipelines.
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