David Xia @davidxia_

I write code and sometimes prose. davidxia.com New York City Joined December 2011

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Erik Bernhardsson @bernhardsson

a day ago

It's true – @modal has raised a $87M Series B at a $1.1B valuation to advance the future of AI infrastructure. Thank you to @Lux_Capital, @Redpoint, @AmplifyPartners, and others. Now more than ever, AI demands a complete reinvention of traditional compute infrastructure

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Charles 🎉 Frye @charles_irl

4 days ago

We reverse-engineered Flash Attention 4.

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Greta @gretaworkman

5 days ago

I’m joining @modal to lead Product Marketing, and I couldn't be more excited. I’ve learned to go where the developer love is. Find that, and the rest will follow. That’s exactly why I was drawn to Modal. @bernhardsson and @akshat_b are building the tools that data and AI teams…

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David Xia @davidxia_

4 weeks ago

Excited for this event! Two companies pushing the edge of what’s possible with computing and Python. If you’ve used uv or ruff or Modal, you know what’s up. Come! luma.com/0s73i81b?tk=pH…

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David Xia @davidxia_

4 weeks ago

Please listen to this. open.spotify.com/episode/3OTsi2…

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Akshat Bubna @akshat_b

a month ago

At @modal we've built every layer of the AI infra stack from scratch — from filesystems and networking to our own async queues and multi-cloud GPU orchestration. I sat down with @narayanarjun from @AmplifyPartners to go into depth on all of this, including the fun ways the…

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David Xia @davidxia_

2 months ago

Thanks to @raydistributed, @hsun_kai , and KubeRay maintainers for the nice gift for contributors.

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Charlie Marsh @charliermarsh

3 months ago

The uv build backend is now stable, and considered ready for production use. An alternative to setuptools, hatchling, etc. for pure Python projects, with a focus on good defaults, user-friendly error messages, and performance. When used with uv, it's 10-35x faster.