Product updates: Sandbox Sidecars, new models, a refreshed dashboard, and more
Blog post from Modal
Modal’s August updates add day-zero Auto Endpoint support for Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, GLM 5.3, and GLM 5.3 Flash through shared token-priced or dedicated GPU-second-priced deployments, with optimizations intended to improve agentic inference speed. The platform also introduced environment-level budgets, a clearer usage-limits interface, reduced broad-region pricing multipliers, and restricted environments with configurable default roles for stronger access control. Sandbox capabilities expanded with public-alpha sidecars for colocated multi-container workloads, CPU and memory utilization graphs, public-beta VM Sandboxes supporting Linux features such as Docker, eBPF, and systemd, and generally available directory snapshots and a faster filesystem API. Other changes include region-selectable outbound proxies, updated Python, JavaScript, and Go SDKs, a refreshed dashboard with beta light mode, and infrastructure improvements reportedly enabling up to one million concurrent Sandboxes and lower Function I/O latency. Modal also highlighted customer and ecosystem integrations, including support for Botika, Devin Outposts, and Cursor Cloud Agents, alongside its upcoming Runtime conference and community events.
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