Modal Blog
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.
We reverse-engineered Flash Attention 4
Asynchrony, fast approximate exponents, and 10x more efficient softmax.
Justin Dignelli joins Modal as VP of Sales
We're excited to welcome Justin Dignelli to Modal. As VP of Sales, he will be leading our GTM efforts.
Latest in Engineering
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.
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.
Latest in News
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.
Justin Dignelli joins Modal as VP of Sales
We're excited to welcome Justin Dignelli to Modal. As VP of Sales, he will be leading our GTM efforts.
Product updates: Modal Notebooks, sandbox idle timeouts, and more
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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