What does Fireworks do?

Fireworks AI is a high-performance inference platform founded in 2022, designed to help developers and enterprises run, fine-tune, and deploy open-source large language and image generation models. The company was established by former leaders from PyTorch, Meta, and Google, with CEO Lin Qiao having played a key role in the development of PyTorch. The platform offers a range of capabilities, including serverless inference for instant access to popular models, on-demand GPU infrastructure that scales with production needs, and advanced model fine-tuning techniques. Fireworks AI supports state-of-the-art open-source models like Stable Diffusion XL and Llama 2, and provides deployment options through software-as-a-service hosting or containerized solutions in customer virtual private clouds. The infrastructure is built on globally distributed virtual cloud technology, ensuring enterprise-grade security and reliability.