SMRTR ProgrammingJan 22, 2025Daily.dev

Serverless for AI Devs: Modal’s Python and Rust Based Platform

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Modal has adapted serverless technology for compute-intensive AI workloads, offering developers a solution for handling large-scale AI tasks without managing complex infrastructure. The platform supports long-running AI, ML, and data workflows, allowing containers to use up to 64 CPUs, 336 GB of memory, and 8 Nvidia H100 GPUs. Modal is particularly well-suited for AI inference applications, enabling quick container starts and shutdowns for efficient autoscaling. While currently Python-focused, the company aims to expand support to JavaScript developers in the future.

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