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How Decagon shipped real-time voice AI on Modal
How Decagon and Modal made real-time voice AI possible, combining fine-tuned small models with a re-engineered inference runtime for sub-second latency.
One-Second Voice-to-Voice Latency with Modal, Pipecat, and Open Models
How we built a real-time voice bot on Modal's distributed serverless platform.
Product Updates: Updates to Volumes, JS and Go SDKs, and more
Welcome to another round of Modal Product Updates! Here's what's new this month.
Latest in Engineering
One-Second Voice-to-Voice Latency with Modal, Pipecat, and Open Models
How we built a real-time voice bot on Modal's distributed serverless platform.
We reverse-engineered Flash Attention 4
Asynchrony, fast approximate exponents, and 10x more efficient softmax.
Build an AI coding platform that scales to millions of monthly sessions
Modal Sandboxes: impeccable vibes meet incredible scale.
Latest in News
Product Updates: Updates to Volumes, JS and Go SDKs, and more
Welcome to another round of Modal Product Updates! Here's what's new this month.
Modal + Datalab: Deploy high-throughput document intelligence in <5 minutes
We've collaborated with Datalab, the creators of Marker and Surya, to make it faster than ever to deploy document intelligence workflows.
Announcing our $87M Series B
We’re excited to announce that we have raised more than $80M in a Series B round, led by Lux Capital. Our post-money valuation is $1.1B.
Latest in Customer Stories
How Decagon shipped real-time voice AI on Modal
How Decagon and Modal made real-time voice AI possible, combining fine-tuned small models with a re-engineered inference runtime for sub-second latency.
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.
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