Eric Zhang announced on X on 9 November that he had returned to Modal. His LinkedIn profile lists him as a Member of Technical Staff at Modal from November 2026, after holding the same title at Thinking Machines Lab from October 2025 to November 2026.
At Thinking Machines Lab, Zhang says he helped make early training for Inkling more reliable and expanded the service researchers used to run models across the lab. He also built a demo for the lab’s interactive models and made them run faster.
During his earlier stint at Modal, he built the system that runs customer code in isolated environments and helped build its collaborative cloud notebooks.