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Nic Cope
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Nic Cope

Sr Principal Engineer, Upbound

Nic is a Senior Principal Engineer at Upbound and a core maintainer of Modelplane and Crossplane. He's spent the last 15+ years working on cloud and infrastructure, including designing and building Crossplane from v0.1 through v2.0, and is now bringing that work to AI inference with Modelplane.

2 posts

inferencecontrol-planenvidia

One ModelDeployment, two serving stacks

A Modelplane cluster can now serve models with NVIDIA's Dynamo components instead of the stack Modelplane composes itself. It's a per-cluster platform choice, and the API an ML team writes doesn't move.

Nic Cope
Nic Cope
Sep 2, 2026·5 min read
Why Day 0 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning wasn't a scramble
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Why Day 0 for Nemotron 3.5 Lightning wasn't a scramble

NVIDIA released Nemotron-3.5-Lightning this morning. It was running on Modelplane by the afternoon, without a line of new Modelplane code, because day-zero model support is built into the design, not a scramble by the team.

Nic Cope
Nic Cope
Aug 11, 2026·4 min read
ModelplaneOpen source control plane for AI models

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