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.