Product Updates: Directory Snapshots, GLM-5, billing updates and more
Blog post from Modal
Modal announced Directory Snapshots, which allow users to capture and reuse individual directories across Sandboxes independently of base images, supporting faster initialization and separation of dependencies from application code. The company is also offering free access through the end of April to Z.ai’s GLM-5 open-weights model, designed for long-horizon and coding agents and compatible with several popular agent tools. Billing improvements include a refreshed interface and generally available CLI and API reporting tools for Team and Enterprise workspaces, while SDK updates add changelog queries, dashboard shortcuts, and Sandbox cleanup controls. Modal additionally highlights a webinar on scaling coding-agent infrastructure, research projects using its GPU and Sandbox environments to automate AI development, and several upcoming virtual and in-person events focused on AI, agents, and infrastructure.
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