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With Charles Frye (Dev Advocate, Modal), Qiaolin Yu (Performance Optimization, SGLang), Nishant Agrawal (Solns Architect, Alibaba Cloud).
Venue, 375 Alabama St, San Francisco
Jan 29 (Thu) , 2026 @ 05:30 PM
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When do open models & inference engines beat proprietary solutions?

Join Modal, Qwen, & SGLang for an evening optimizing performance & cost for LLM inference. Our speakers will cover:

The Cold Start Issue - how can AI infrastructure enable seamless AI experiences, right from the start?

Accelerating Open Models - how do inference engines work with model developers to achieve benchmarking goals?

Choosing the Best Model - how should developers choose the most effective model for their use case?

With:

Charles Frye, GPU Enjoyer & Developer Advocate at Modal

Qiaolin Yu, Performance Optimization at SGLang

Nishant Agrawal, Senior Solutions Architect at Alibaba Cloud

Agenda
We're excited to bring together founders, AI engineers, & ML systems researchers for an evening with:

Demos & Lightning Talks

Community, Pizza, Drinks

Your hosts,

Modal, Qwen & SGLang
 
 
 
 
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