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Inside Modal Notebooks: How we built a cloud GPU notebook that boots in seconds
Exploring the internals of our new product, a modern Jupyter notebook built for fast startup and real-time collaboration.
Introducing Notebooks
A collaborative environment for high-performance interactive computing on GPUs.
How Zencastr transcribed hundreds of years worth of audio in just a few days
Zencastr scaled up to 1,500 concurrent GPUs on Modal to process hundreds of years of podcast audio in just a few days. Today they run transcription, speaker detection, and audio enrichment for millions of podcast episodes on Modal, giving them cost efficiency, fast iteration, and zero DevOps overhead.
Latest in Engineering
Inside Modal Notebooks: How we built a cloud GPU notebook that boots in seconds
Exploring the internals of our new product, a modern Jupyter notebook built for fast startup and real-time collaboration.
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.
Latest in News
Introducing Notebooks
A collaborative environment for high-performance interactive computing on GPUs.
Product updates: GPU memory snapshots, notebooks, service tokens, and more
Welcome to another round of Modal Product Updates! Here's what's new this month.
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.
Latest in Customer Stories
How Zencastr transcribed hundreds of years worth of audio in just a few days
Zencastr scaled up to 1,500 concurrent GPUs on Modal to process hundreds of years of podcast audio in just a few days. Today they run transcription, speaker detection, and audio enrichment for millions of podcast episodes on Modal, giving them cost efficiency, fast iteration, and zero DevOps overhead.
How Modal powered 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.
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