Strategy & developer ecosystem @ Fireworks AI. Open models in production. Prev: Microsoft for Startups, AWS AI/ML.
San Francisco
Joined April 2009
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In 2024 I made 5-year AI predictions on stage at the AI Conference. This year I went back and graded myself.My TAIC 2026 keynote, “Your Own Frontier”: youtube.com/watch?v=LKfD599x…
@AIconference @FireworksAI_HQ
I joined on @ProductsCount to talk about what happens when AI gets faster, cheaper, and easier to build with.
We covered why speed matters more than people realize, how accessible training your own model has become, and why I think we’re moving from SaaS toward something I call “workwear.”
That last one probably deserves its own post.
Thanks Nacho Andrade!!
Watch the episode: youtube.com/watch?v=YmmtbslG…
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Ember-1 is a specialized model from Fireworks Research designed to make every token go further.
Built on Kimi K3, it produces shorter reasoning traces, using roughly 40% fewer tokens while maintaining top-tier quality.
fireworks.ai/models/firework…
I'm speaking at Navigate in SF today! @browserbase's conference on what it takes to run AI agents in production. My panel is on the State of Agent Infra. Come find me if you're building in this space. browserbase.run/fiSvDkT
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We invite you to Forge.
At Forge, we will challenge you to make your own frontier.
You'll spend the day with the builders, researchers, and technical leaders pushing AI forward.
Lin Qiao. Jensen Huang. Jay Parikh. And more.
Apply to attend: fireworks.ai/forge
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The most ambitious companies are training models to outperform the frontier on the capabilities that differentiate their business.
Today, we announce the general availability of our Training API and Fireworks Lab, making model specialization accessible to all organizations.
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Do you know you can use open weight models like GLM, Deepseek, Kimi in Claude Code?
Setup Fireworks account - you get free credits on signup
$ curl -fsSL raw.githubusercontent.com/fw… | bash
$ fireconnect login
$ fireconnect claude
That's it!
Best part? you can use /model to switch b/n Anthropic and Open models.
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Open models just crossed the intelligence-cost curve.
Most of your team's bill is from routine work at frontier prices.
We make it easy to own your AI spend, without changing the way your engineers work.
Introducing Fireworks Nexus: fireworks.ai/blog/fireworks-…
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Happy to have @FireworksAI_HQ as our day0 launch partner and bring Kimi K3 to more developers.
With Fireworks, you can now deploy and fine-tune the 2.8T Kimi K3 model with just a few clicks!
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Make Kimi K3 yours with LoRA training on Fireworks Training a model this massive used to be a big project.
With Fireworks Training, you can take the best open model in the world and efficiently tune it to your unique workloads, without paying frontier prices or touching a GPU cluster.
fireworks.ai/blog/K3-LoRA-Tr…
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The hard part of reinforcement learning on a frontier model is the infrastructure that keeps training and inference numerically identical: zero KLD, end to end.
We've solved this challenge, and are now offering it as a managed service, starting with GLM 5.2.
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We recently teamed up with our friends at @AWSstartups, @sequoia, and @MadronaVentures to write this whitepaper on MLOps and how it relates to startups and building new companies. ow.ly/liGK50JF41s
The only time I've had my @ATT phone calls drop is literally EVERY time I've tried to call their customer service.
Hey @Zipcar I can't reset my password on your site through the password reset flow and your help center requires me to login!
That time when you thought Simone Biles was "only" doing a *perfect* Amanar and it turned out to be a much harder BILES. #must_be_angel_has_wings
looooooooooooooooooooooool xitter.cf/awscloud/status/836656…
