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The platform for specialized intelligence — build, tune, and scale AI on open models
HQ: San Mateo, CA, United States | Founded: 2022 | Employees: ~200 (targeting 600 by EOY 2026) | Stage: Late Stage VC (Series D) | Website: https://fireworks.ai
Fireworks AI is an AI inference and model-serving platform headquartered in San Mateo, California, founded in October 2022 by seven engineers from Meta's PyTorch team and Google's Vertex AI. The company provides enterprises with a cloud platform to run, fine-tune, and deploy open-source large language models, vision models, and multimodal models with low latency and optimized cost. Its proprietary FireAttention inference engine delivers up to 4x higher throughput and industry-leading latency compared to open-source alternatives like vLLM.
The platform offers three deployment modes: serverless (pay-per-token, zero setup, no cold starts), on-demand (dedicated GPUs with autoscaling), and reserved capacity (guaranteed capacity with BYOC options). Fireworks serves 250+ models across text, visi
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