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Fireworks is an AI inference platform company that runs open-weight and open-source generative AI models on managed cloud infrastructure, serving and fine-tuning them for developers.
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch· 9 Nov
Lin of Fireworks argued that companies need their own models trained close to their own data.BIG IDEAS BY NEW ECONOMIES· 8 Nov
Ollie Forsyth says Lin Qiao, co-founder of Fireworks, also has six or seven co-founders.Decoder with Nilay Patel· 7 Nov
In the Cursor incident, attackers broke into Fireworks, stole API keys that let them break into Cursor, and pushed a bad plug-in that reached 5,000 more companies, causing 5,000 potential breaches.The Neon Show· 6 Nov
Rajkumar Sen says that at high throughput and scale applications have to go to another vendor, and that one of these inference vendors may be bought by somebody at some point.Newcomer Pod· 5 Nov
Eric Newcomer identifies a wave of inference companies including Base10, Fireworks and Modal, and says the argument against them is that revenue growth is high but revenue quality is questioned.