David Dorman

Gam ve gam. marketing/growth @modal. similar stuff before @grafana @digitalocean

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[David Dorman @ddorman]

👋 Two big updates:

(1) After 5.5 years, my time @grafana has come to an end.

(2) And on Monday, I officially started @modal as VP of Marketing/Growth...

🥹 First…..Grafana. There’s a lot to say....

[Adam Azzam @AAAzzam]

Two big updates on my end:
1. I’m moving on from @PrefectIO after three wonderful years.
2. I started this week at @modal as Member of Product Staff.

I’m so incredibly grateful to @jlowin , Chris White, Thomas Egbert and the team at Prefect. I got to build world class open source software and be a part of Prefect and @fastmcp's vertical growth.

Three years ago I joined Modal as a user. It was March 2023 and I was two days into a losing fight with ECS. @PhysicsBliss told me to check out Modal. @bernhardsson replied to my signup email in two minutes; by that night, days of work had collapsed into hours. Modal sparked joy and I was preaching the gospel to anyone who would listen.

That didn’t stop when I joined Prefect. It’s rare to find kindred spirits, who share your scar tissue, who think about software and developer experience the way you do. Unsurprisingly then, Modal was my default recommendation to customers and I kept working with Erik, @akshat_b and @charles_irl to build integrations and do events together.

So I'm making it official. I get to do full-time what I've been doing as a fan for three years: help people build without friction and turn months of work into hours.

I couldn't be more excited to build alongside Erik, Akshat, Charles, and the whole team. Here's to the next chapter.

[Modal @modal]

With today's launch of Nemotron 3 Ultra, @nvidia continues to expand its investment in open-source AI. Their flagship frontier-reasoning model, built for long-running autonomous agents, is available Day 0 on Modal.

- 550B with 55B active parameters
- Hybrid Transformer-Mamba MoE architecture
- 1M context
- Up to 5x faster inference
- Up to 30% lower cost

[Thomas Karatzas @karatzas_thomas]

https://t.co/ZCUpCJlPhP

[sona dolasia @teenychairs]

we're hosting some parties to celebrate our C 💚

exclusive swag at both ofc

[Alex Konrad @alexrkonrad]

Startup builders: this is the NY Tech Week event you won't want to miss 👀

Join @UpstartsMediaCo as I interview 3 of the top startup founders in the Big Apple 🍎
▪️Modal CEO Erik Bernhardsson
▪️Merge CEO Shensi Ding
▪️Crosby CEO Ryan Daniels

Real talk about scaling and building an AI startup alongside real customers in the city that keeps it real. Thursday, June 4.

Apply here 👇
https://t.co/mOTjUPpOHQ

[Modal @modal]

We're bringing together our friends and community to celebrate our Series C.

Join us at Noguchi's Sunken Garden in NYC on June 16th or at the Legion of Honor in SF on June 25th.

Invites are limited, apply here: https://t.co/B4h0C7Wq0Q

[Nan Jiang @nanjiangwill]

At @modal, we're working to make sure OSS RL frameworks have all the techniques necessary to train frontier open-weights models.

Delta compression is key, but the job's not done. There are still lots of open problems around weight sync, auto-scaling, & cross-cluster training.

My DMs are open!

[Modal @modal]

Reinforcement learning has exploded on Modal, and we've been cooking.

Here's a review of lessons learned helping teams train at scale, the patterns we kept seeing, and an open-source library to get started with RL on Modal quickly.

[Doppel @DoppelHQ]

How does Doppel stay ahead of phishing campaigns that spin up millions of domains at once?

Machine learning engineers William Gill and Ishana Shastri explain how they use @modal to:

- React to sudden cyberattack influxes with highly elastic GPU clusters.
- Replace complex Cloud Run and Docker setups with simple decorators in a single code file.
- Make experimentation cost-efficient by running parallel experiments in the background.

Learn more:
https://t.co/L6YTIFgAYs

[Modal @modal]

Day 0 support for Step 3.7 Flash on Modal.

- 198B parameter MoE with 11B active
- 256K context
- 3 reasoning levels
- Native image & video understanding

Great to work with @StepFun_ai and @sgl_project on this one.

[Modal @modal]

Agents do a lot more than just write code now, and infrastructure guardrails need to keep up.

Role-Based Access Control is now available to all Workspaces on Team and Enterprise plans.

[ben hylak @benhylak]

this saturday, @OpenAI is throwing an autoresearch hackathon with @raindrop_ai and @modal

come learn how to build systems (agents, models, etc) that improve themselves

link below!

[David Dorman @ddorman]

Modal is for models. And agents. And more.

And we’re hiring. https://t.co/gmhrpPiYFv

[Erik Bernhardsson @bernhardsson]

Today we're announcing our Series C funding: $355M at a $4.65B valuation, led by some great investors @generalcatalyst and @Redpoint.

We've had insane growth in the last year, but we're still very early. So proud of the team and what we have built so far!

[sisyphus bar and grill @itunpredictable]

@ddorman @modal Modal is one of the few companies that seems to have broken through without resorting to fucked marketing. I want to figure out how others can achieve this

[Charles 🎉 Frye @charles_irl]

ℂ is for ℂommercialization.

Language models don't just model language; they interact with the world.

And the world interacts with them back.

I spent $33 of @modal's Series C funding to pay @andon_thinking to make and air an ad -- and add a company favorite to the catalog.

[Akshat Bubna @akshat_b]

Raising $ is cool. What’s even cooler is getting to work every day with this incredible group of humans.

We like solving hard problems and building things we can be proud of. If this is you, come join us! We’re just getting started :)

[Redpoint @Redpoint]

We're honored to deepen our partnership with @modal and co-lead their $355M Series C!

When @bernhardsson and @akshat_b started Modal in 2021, they had conviction that building a truly great cloud for AI meant rebuilding the entire stack from the ground up. Five years later, that bet has paid off.

Erik built the recommendation system behind Discover Weekly at Spotify. Akshat was an early engineer at Scale AI before joining Erik as co-founder and CTO. Together, they've assembled what one engineer affectionately calls "a monastery for super nerds" and it shows in the product.

Modal has become the high-performance cloud that serious AI teams reach for when they need to ship. We couldn't be more excited to continue backing them.

Huge congratulations to Erik, Akshat, and the entire Modal team!

[David Dorman @ddorman]

@itunpredictable ...the team awaits your verdict on the @modal announcement 😵‍💫

[David Dorman @ddorman]

@itunpredictable we're ready for it...