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Modal + Mistral 3: 10x faster cold starts with GPU snapshotting
We've partnered with Mistral to bring you Day 0 support for Mistral 3, with GPU-snapshot-optimized performance.
Agents need good developer experience too
Turns out, good devex for agents looks a lot like good devex for humans.
How Reducto improved enterprise-scale document processing latency by 3x
Learn how Reducto used GPU memory snapshotting and flexible autoscaling to build fast multi-model pipelines.
Latest in Engineering
Agents need good developer experience too
Turns out, good devex for agents looks a lot like good devex for humans.
Host overhead is killing your inference efficiency
Never block the GPU.
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.
Latest in News
Modal + Mistral 3: 10x faster cold starts with GPU snapshotting
We've partnered with Mistral to bring you Day 0 support for Mistral 3, with GPU-snapshot-optimized performance.
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.
Latest in Customer Stories
How Reducto improved enterprise-scale document processing latency by 3x
Learn how Reducto used GPU memory snapshotting and flexible autoscaling to build fast multi-model pipelines.
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.
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