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July 7, 2025Monday
  1. Modal Blog28

    How Modal Powered 250,000 Lovable App Creations in a Weekend

    Lovable used Modal Sandboxes to run LLM-generated code during a June 2025 promotional weekend with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, enabling users to build an estimated 250,000 applications in 48 hours. Modal ran over 1 million sandboxes with up to 20,000 concurrent at peak as Lovable's concurrent sessions surged 2.5-3x, and its platform team was not paged once. Lovable cut its sandbox orchestration code from 15,000 lines to 700 lines after switching to Modal.

June 30, 2025Monday
  1. Modal Blog28

    How Quora uses Modal to run thousands of Python sandboxes simultaneously

    Quora uses Modal Sandboxes to securely execute LLM-generated code in Poe, its AI chatbot platform, shipping the feature months earlier than an in-house build would have allowed. The team stress-tested Sandbox creation throughput to 1000 sandboxes per second and reports saving 2 engineers' worth of ongoing infrastructure maintenance time.

June 26, 2025Thursday
June 18, 2025Wednesday
  1. Vapi Blog18

    Five Ways Real Estate Agents Can Use AI

    A guide outlines five ways real estate agents can use AI, including voice agents built on Vapi that answer calls, qualify leads, and book showings around the clock. It also covers automating content with ChatGPT and Canva, plus AI pricing tools such as HouseCanary and CoreLogic that produce valuations with confidence scores.

June 5, 2025Thursday
  1. Vapi Blog22

    GPT-4.1 vs Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Which AI Delivers Better Voice Agents?

    Vapi compares GPT-4.1 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet as the LLM behind voice agents, weighing conversation quality, context handling, reasoning transparency, platform integration and cost. GPT-4.1 offers a 1,000,000-token context window and 32,768-token outputs with 75% caching discounts, while Claude 3.7 provides a 200,000-token context and 128,000-token outputs. Both models are selectable on Vapi's voice agent platform.

June 4, 2025Wednesday
  1. Vapi Blog22

    Three Examples of Voice AI Improving Logistics

    Vapi outlines three voice AI use cases in logistics: ShipEX uses voice intelligence across 350 trucks to route maintenance alerts and accident reports, the Idaho State Liquor Division's voice picking system lifted pick rates 35%, and maintenance technicians log issues by voice to auto-create CMMS work orders. The article also details API integration with TMS, CRM, and WMS systems and deployment considerations.

May 29, 2025Thursday
  1. Vapi Blog25

    Choosing Between Gemini Models for Voice AI

    Vapi outlines how to pick among four Gemini models for voice agents: Gemini 1.0 Pro for predictable, compliance-friendly flows at $0.50 input and $2.00 output per million tokens, Gemini 1.5 Flash for high-volume work with a 1M token context window, Gemini 1.5 Pro for deep reasoning with a 2M token window and 99.7% long-context retrieval accuracy, and Gemini 2.0 Flash for native tool calling.

May 23, 2025Friday
  1. Vapi Blog18

    Top 5 Character AI Alternatives for Seamless Voice Integration

    A Vapi blog roundup lists five Character AI alternatives for voice integration: Vapi, AnimaAI, JasperAI, Novel AI and AI Dungeon. Vapi is pitched as an API-native Voice AI platform supporting 100+ languages, connecting to 40+ applications, with Sesame-powered voice agents and automated test suites for catching hallucinations.

  2. Vapi Blog8

    Mastering Environment Variables for Vapi Voice AI Integration

    Vapi's guide explains how to configure environment variables for its Voice AI integration, covering temporary vs. permanent and user-level vs. system-level variables. It details setup on Windows, macOS and Linux with Vapi-specific examples like VAPI_API_KEY and VAPI_MULTILINGUAL_SUPPORT, plus naming and security best practices such as never hardcoding API keys.

May 22, 2025Thursday
  1. Modal Blog58

    Modal launches Batch, processing 1 million jobs with one line of code

    Modal launched Modal Batch, a batch-processing interface backed by a rebuilt durable queue that can queue 1 million inputs at once, up from 2,000, and guarantees execution up to 7 days after a job is launched, up from 1 day. A new native handler, .spawn_map, spawns thousands of containers over a set of inputs without users managing async logic, and Harvey reports a 10x speed-up in its document-processing pipeline after fanning inputs across 1,000 containers. Suno uses it to run GPU-accelerated preprocessing on thousands of GPUs, and Achira relies on its retry mechanism for quantum mechanical datasets.

May 20, 2025Tuesday
  1. Vapi Blog22

    Vapi Integrates GoHighLevel Calendar Into Its Voice Agents

    Vapi has rolled out direct integration with GoHighLevel Calendars, embedding its voice agents into the GHL scheduling flow. Agents can now check real-time availability on connected GHL calendars, create contacts from caller details, and book appointments tied to the correct contact. Setup mirrors connecting Google Calendar in Vapi, with four new tools: Create Event, Check Availability, Create Contact, and Contact Get.

April 24, 2025Thursday
  1. Modal Blog22

    How Lemon Slice built real-time generative video with Modal and Daily

    Lemon Slice built Lemon Slice Live, a product for real-time video conversations with AI characters, using Modal and Daily's low-latency primitives to reach an end-to-end video response latency of 3-6 seconds. The pipeline runs a Pipecat server and a 1B parameter video model on separate Modal containers that communicate via Modal's Tunnel and are co-located with region selection, with Deepgram, Grok and ElevenLabs handling speech-to-text, LLM response and text-to-speech. Earlier, two Python Modal Functions let Lemon Slice scale to 10,000 requests per hour without managing an ECS cluster, job queue or load balancer.

April 18, 2025Friday
  1. Modal Blog22

    How sync. uses Modal to lipsync 100 hours of video a day

    sync. is using Modal to lipsync over 100 hours of video a day, splitting long videos into scenes that run face detection and translation across n T4 GPU containers before passing each scene to its proprietary LipSync GenAI model on A100s. The team deploys up to 95 times a day and shipped 10 major model variants to production in one year, after moving off a Google Colab prototype and AWS Lambda.

  2. Vapi Blog40

    Vapi Launches MCP Server to Control Voice Agents from Claude Desktop and Cursor

    Vapi released the Vapi MCP Server, letting AI agent tools trigger real-time voice flows and outbound calls via function calling. It supports Claude Desktop integration and remote access over SSE, so users can ask Claude to place calls or schedule follow-ups in plain language. The server is available via @vapi-ai/mcp-server, locally or through a hosted SSE endpoint.

April 17, 2025Thursday
  1. Modal Blog25

    Modal product updates: 1M-input batch jobs, ephemeral apps, and a TensorRT-LLM example

    Modal now lets each Function queue up to 1 million inputs, up from 2k, with higher .spawn() rate limits and FunctionCall results retained for 7 days. The update also adds ephemeral apps via app.run() inside containers, Git commit info for apps in the CLI and dashboard, and a new TensorRT-LLM example serving LLMs at under 400 ms latency.

April 1, 2025Tuesday
  1. Vapi Blog20

    Scaling Client Intake with Vapi Voice AI Agents: A Consultant's Case Study

    Consultant Christian Ulstrup of GSD at Work used Vapi voice AI agents to replace scheduled discovery calls with an asynchronous voice intake system for his AI Action Sessions workshops. Participants call a dedicated Vapi phone line at their convenience, and transcripts plus AI-generated summaries flow into Slack via Zapier and are logged in HubSpot. For one recent client, 20 participants across the globe contributed over 3 hours of discovery, and the session earned a 5 out of 5 rating.

March 6, 2025Thursday
  1. Vapi Blog20

    How AI Call Centers Are Changing Customer Support

    AI call centers are reshaping customer support by resolving routine calls in seconds instead of long waits, as in the example of an outage query handled in 30 seconds. Gartner estimates about 25% of customer service interactions will involve AI by 2027, up from 2% in 2022, a market worth $15-20 billion by 2027-2028 at roughly 25-30% CAGR. The article covers traditional call center pain points such as slow response times, peak-hour surges and limited hours, and how AI automation addresses them.

January 21, 2025Tuesday
  1. Modal Blog58

    Modal Sandboxes 正式可用，为 LLM 与用户代码提供隔离执行环境

    Modal announced the general availability of Sandboxes, its primitive for safely running untrusted code from LLMs, users, or third-party sources in an isolated environment separate from other Modal resources. Sandboxes offer a simple exec API, runtime-configurable environments via the Image API, and filesystem snapshots for persistence. Modal also upstreamed support into SWE-bench, where a --modal flag lets the Verified benchmark's 500 tasks run in about 7 minutes, and cited Quora's Poe, Codegen, and Relevance AI as customers.

December 10, 2024Tuesday
  1. Modal Blog22

    Modal's Internal Hackathon: Browserman, Glodal and More Built on Modal

    Modal held an internal hackathon where 30 employees formed 13 teams to build projects that all used Modal. Browserman is a multi-modal AI agent built with Llama-3.2-90B-Vision-Instruct-FP8, vLLM and Playwright that navigates the web visually to complete tasks. Glodal prototyped a distributed control plane that cut request latency from 268ms to 3ms, and Modal is now working to build it into the platform.

November 12, 2024Tuesday
  1. Cursor Changelog58

    Supermaven joins Cursor as the team shifts focus to the Cursor editor

    Cursor announced that Supermaven, the fast context-aware AI coding assistant, is joining the company, with Supermaven creator Jacob Jackson and his team coming aboard. Cursor said it plans a new Tab model version that is fast, context-aware and especially good at handling long chains of large edits, while the Supermaven plugin will keep being maintained even as Cursor becomes the team's core focus.

November 8, 2024Friday
  1. Modal Blog22

    Modal product updates: static IP proxies, Slack integration, live usage dashboard and GPU fallbacks

    Modal shipped static IP proxies that route outbound traffic through workspace-exclusive IPs, plus a native Slack integration for real-time app alerts and a live usage dashboard tracking resources across all workspace apps. The update also adds GPU fallbacks for functions, expanding the pool of resources a function can be scheduled on, and client changes including `modal shell` container IDs and memory snapshotting for parametrized functions.

September 6, 2024Friday
  1. Modal Blog22

    Modal Product Updates: App Rollbacks, Dynamic Batching, Sandbox Tunnels and OpenTelemetry

    Modal shipped app rollbacks that let users revert a deployed app to a previous version from the dashboard or CLI, plus a @batched decorator that accumulates requests into dynamically sized batches to trade latency for throughput and GPU utilization. Sandbox objects can now forward TCP ports to the internet and exec additional processes, and logs can be exported to an OpenTelemetry provider. CPU cores and higher-end GPUs also got cheaper.

August 23, 2024Friday
  1. Cursor Changelog62

    Cursor raises $60M Series A from Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital and OpenAI

    Cursor raised a $60M Series A from Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, OpenAI, Jeff Dean, Noam Brown, and founders of Stripe, GitHub, Ramp, Perplexity and OpenAI. The AI coding tool says it has grown to more than 40,000 users, including startups, research institutions and large enterprises, and describes internal systems for next-edit prediction, retrieval across billions of files and speculative-inference code rewriting.

    Why it matters: Cursor's $60M Series A announcement also discloses its user base has grown past 40,000 and names the investors backing its AI coding tool.

July 3, 2024Wednesday
  1. Modal Blog30

    Competitive prompt engineering: Basis runs the Prompt Olympics on Modal

    Basis organized the Prompt Olympics, a competitive programming-style prompt engineering contest with a $5,000 prize, and ran it on Modal's infrastructure. In one challenge, participants wrote prompts that steered LLaMA 3 70B, deployed on Modal, to generate code that had to pass tests inside Modal Sandboxes. The finale had players prompt a model to control the Crafter game agent; Basis found even capable open source models like LLaMA 3 70B hard to prompt effectively and switched to a proprietary model API for that component.

June 20, 2024Thursday
  1. Modal Blog25

    Run GPU jobs from Airflow with Modal

    Modal can now be triggered directly from an Airflow DAG, letting teams run GPU-backed AI/ML tasks without setting up Celery or Kubernetes executors. The guide covers installing Modal in an Airflow environment, setting MODAL_TOKEN_ID and MODAL_TOKEN_SECRET, and two approaches: calling deployed Modal Functions via lookup, or building a custom operator that runs Python in Modal Sandboxes. A Modal Airflow provider package is in progress.

May 26, 2024Sunday
  1. Cursor Changelog40

    Cursor Outlines Next-Stage AI Coding Problems: Action Prediction, Perfect Edits, Optimal Context

    Cursor published a follow-up to its original "Problems" post, listing the research questions it considers most critical for the next phase of AI coding. The company has extended Copilot++ to predict the next cursor position, and combining that with next-edit prediction lets the model "play" sequences of low-entropy changes—a demo required 11 Tab presses versus 3 presses of every other key, which Cursor calls Cursor Flow. Other directions include action prediction across the codebase, perfect edits via more inference-time compute, hallucinated pseudocode, multi-file editing, optimal context, multi-hop context, and bug detection and debugging.

May 23, 2024Thursday
  1. Modal Blog22

    How Hunch Uses Modal Sandboxes to Run AI-Generated Code Safely

    Hunch, a spatial canvas that combines models such as OpenAI GPT-4o, Anthropic Claude 3 Opus and Stable Diffusion 3, uses Modal Sandboxes to execute AI-generated code safely in isolated, ephemeral containers. The integration required only a few lines of Python and supports pip installs, attached storage volumes and automatic scaling. Hunch said the setup lets non-coders build workflows that fetch API data or send results to Slack webhooks.

October 13, 2023Friday
  1. Cursor Changelog38

    Cursor's Problem List: Better Context, Edit Copilot, Constrained Agents

    Cursor published a list of problems it is working on, including training a custom fast reranker that filters 500k tokens from all sources down to the most relevant 8k per request. The list also covers an edit-oriented copilot, constrained in-flow agents for large codebases, bug finding, and larger-scale edits. As of Oct 12, 2023, Cursor had indexed 1.4B vectors and 150k codebases.

June 12, 2023Monday
  1. Cursor Changelog38

    Cursor's Arvid Lunnemark on why prompting should be called prompt design

    Cursor researcher Arvid Lunnemark argues that prompting should be called "prompt design" and compared to web design, since both pursue clear communication with dynamic inputs and must fit content to different "sizes" — screen sizes for the web, context windows for prompts. He released Priompt v0.1, a React-like JSX-based prompt design library already used inside Cursor, with a preview site for rendering prompts against real request data.