🎆 AI Integration Innovation

Today's Highlights

  • Fireworks AI - empowering developers with a cutting-edge GenAI platform
  • Learn - a couple of courses to further your knowledge in AI
  • In Other News - a few interesting developments we're tracking

Fireworks AI - Empowering Developers with GenAI

Fireworks AI, based in Redwood City, California, is making significant strides in the AI industry by providing a robust production platform tailored to developers.

The core offering of Fireworks AI is the GenAI Platform, which facilitates the creation, fine-tuning, and sharing of large language models (LLMs). This platform is designed to optimize both latency and throughput, allowing developers to efficiently integrate AI solutions into their products without the need to build from scratch. Currently, the platform serves over 12,000 developers and handles more than 25 billion tokens daily. This high level of adoption underscores its utility and effectiveness​.

Fireworks AI has developed several innovative tools, including FireFunction-v1, an open-weights model enhancing function calling capabilities, and FireLLaVA, a multi-modality model with a commercially permissive license. Additionally, their custom CUDA kernel, FireAttention, is optimized for multi-query attention models, further demonstrating their commitment to cutting-edge AI technology​.

Fireworks AI’s notable clients include companies like Tome, Poe, and Sourcegraph, highlighting its broad appeal and practical applications across various industries. With its strong leadership team and backing from influential investors, Fireworks AI is well-positioned to continue its trajectory of growth and innovation in the AI sector.

The company was founded by Lin Qiao, Dmytro Dzhulgakov, and Chenyu Zhao. They raised $25 million to date.


📚 Learn

Per Harald Borgen
Google Cloud Training

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