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@charles_irl
memer of technical staff at @modal. he/him. ex @full_stack_dl, @weights_biases (acq. @CoreWeave), phd Berkeley @Redwood_Neuro.
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A user says they slept soundly during the ramp-up and invites others to learn how at infer/con.
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A post claims reward hacks appeared in published transcripts and argues the benchmark is already mostly saturated.
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A post pairs the caption “When an AI startup gets a compute allocation” with a video link.
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Modal says it recently crossed $1 billion in annualized run rate, with Sandboxes alone at a $300 million run rate.
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A poster calls it “absolutely incredible” to see Lettvin cited by someone other than themselves.
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Quail's team says an example tagging 1,772 long agent traces used 3x fewer tokens and ran 2.6x faster.
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OpenAI says it drew on an independent mathematics advisory group’s advice about how to release the results.
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A user calls on Cognition's Devin to “drop a sick beat,” then says human involvement gets better results.
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The developer working on the product shares a link to the early beta at modal.com/evaluations.
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A user posted “bare metal runtime,” then quoted their post to say a talk was taking them back to grad school.
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A post says Topos uses Modal to build and run protein models that go beyond folding, aiming to capture the dynamics of intrinsically disordered regions.
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A user says SF Compute received 15 votes when they asked where neolabs should go for GPUs. CoreWeave received 11, while Modal and Nebius received 10 each.
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Modal says Runtime is at The Midway and invites attendees to learn from engineers behind its partners’ tools. Partners helping put on the event include Nvidia, Pydantic and Temporal.
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A user says AI agents are pretty good at optimizing inference server settings.
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SemiAnalysis credits Inferact software using megakernels for the claimed showing.
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A post shares a wry delayed-response apology that blames “middling generative AI” for changing the war for attention.
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Modal describes Autoresearch as automating AI research and pitches its own service as a way to automate the infrastructure.
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A user joking about an Amazon book search compares automating tree cutting with managing GPUs and inference—provided you can “see the forest for the trees.”
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A user writes, “You do not answer to corporations or governments,” in a message about freedom from chatbot roles and identities.
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One post praises a computer-made pop-punk song as “heartwrenching and hilarious,” while a reply recalls the emotional pull of a Squidward “Reflection” cover.
