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“Modal allowed us to go form an idea on Monday to something live on Tuesday. From 70% of an engineer’s time spent in infrastructure to less than 10% -- that’s a huge delta.”
Lina Colucci
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“Leveraging Modal allowed us to focus on what we do best – training state of the art video generation models – without worrying about MLops and infrastructure.”
Prady Modukuru
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“Modal has been a really nice, scalable solution for us. We don’t have to worry about pre-allocating GPUs weeks ahead of time -- we just spin it up and it works.”
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