Our cofounder @timdavis built an AI storybook app using FLUX2 and Gemma 4 on Modular Cloud. Pick a character, make choices, and the story branches endlessly, with every page written and illustrated in real time.
Tim has spent his career obsessing over inference latency, first at Google, now at Modular. Building something his kids actually use settled it: in a real-time generative app, the inference platform determines the experience as much as the model.
The numbers back that up. From 24 hours of production traffic: first prose in 420ms, a full illustration in under 6 seconds, 85% of page turns in 48ms.
We even put @clattner in an Inkwell story! Chris Lattner: compiler legend and devoted Diet Coke hoarder. Someone stole his last case. The only way to get it back is to write a new programming language fast enough to track down the thief.
Read it and choose your own ending: The Carbonated Crisis — Inkwell
Create your own story with Inkwell and share it. We’re sending swag to our favorites: https://inkwell.modular.com/