We're thrilled to share Modal Notebooks: a new, powerful cloud-hosted GPU notebook. It has modern real-time collaborative editing and is backed by our AI infrastructure — swap GPUs in seconds. Modal Notebooks are generally available, and you can start using them now. 🧵

I started hacking on Jupyter notebooks because they’re incredibly useful, a pillar of research and fast iteration. But it’s too easy to lose your work, the documents are siloed, and few providers offer high-end GPUs. That’s not good DevEx!

So, we reimagined notebooks from the ground up: - Each notebook can have up to 8 B200 GPUs and starts in seconds - Use arbitrary custom images - Modern features: AI, LSP, semantic highlighting - Jupyter Widgets synced across users - A beautiful, sleek UI

During our short beta period last month, thousands of developers have already started using Modal Notebooks, and they ran 200,000+ code cells. One of those is @SunoMusic, where researchers use notebooks to share models and experiments across the company.

More info in our product announcement: Modal Notebooks are part of our goal to build a cloud platform better tailored for developers. We hope they help people to work together and ultimately bring simpler, better technology into the world.

This is cozy for researchers imo

@marimo_io notebooks next please 🙏

@marimo_io Would love to see it!

yikes man give me better code and devops tools not gay notebooks

finally!

LFG!!! finally an alternative to colab

👌migrating Colab projects to Modal.

super! can you do a demo soon on compiling and running a vecadd cuda kernel? lots of people trying to learn cuda and this might just be the best tool for it!

It should work! nvcc is built into the notebook base image – want to try making one and sharing the link?

nvcc is, but not the drivers.

Got it, okay we'll have to fix that!

I thought you guys are partnering with @marimo_io

@suryatkin @marimo_io We are! Modal Sandboxes also power Marimo's cloud offering, and actually I showed them what we were working on to encourage them to try using Sandboxes :) Big fan of the innovative work they are doing

@marimo_io Awesome

yoooooooo

🥰 coincides with your move to nyc!

yes!!

This looks awesome @ekzhang1 Real-time collab + instant GPU swaps is a huge time saver

so bullish on more gpu/notebook infra for builders let's launch modal on when it helps guys

So excited to try this 🤯

game changer for data teams

this looks awesome, I want to work with and tinker !

Incredible👏

oh this is super helpful! any plans to having a cli client to run .cu scripts?

looks cool and great presentation

awesome!

Collaboration and powerful GPUs, a compelling combination. This could significantly accelerate development cycles. I wonder what new possibilities this unlocks.

Thanks man 😊🙏

been using modal notebooks for the past few weeks to run experiments. huge

YESS THANK YOU🤦🏿‍♂️😭😭😭😭😭

Lfg

Modal Notebooks sound like a game-changer for anyone needing flexible, powerful cloud-based GPU resources! The real-time collaboration and seamless GPU swapping are huge wins for productivity. How do you see this enhancing workflows for AI research or development teams?

congratulations!

Modal's making cloud-hosted slick with fast GPUs and teamwork magic! It's like giving every AI project an energy drink. Ready to see ideas launch into the stratosphere!

Looks great Eric! One thing that cropped up early in our fastai course (by @answerdotai) study group was a robust way to collaborate live on a notebook (e.g. like you can for Google docs). Is this possible with Modal notebooks?

This is awesome @ekzhang1 !

why is this better than google colab? don't they also have fast startup GPUs and even a free one?

Awesome, very awesome!

Nice

Congrats to the Modal team on launching Modal Notebooks 🎉 The real-time collaboration + GPU flexibility looks incredible. As a recent M.S. grad working on LLMs/AI infra (currently on OPT), I’d be thrilled to explore opportunities to contribute at Modal — is your team hiring?

互关，回关下，谢谢

so strong 🚀