Fireworks
PulseAugur coverage of Fireworks — every cluster mentioning Fireworks across labs, papers, and developer communities, ranked by signal.
- 2026-11-09 controversy Fireworks experienced a cyberattack that exposed customer data and AI models, leading to customer attrition. source
- 2026-11-08 hiring Dave Wehner leaves Meta to become CFO of AI startup Fireworks. source
- 2026-11-08 hiring Dave Wehner leaves Meta to become CFO of AI startup Fireworks. source
- 2026-11-07 hiring Meta's Chief Strategy Officer Dave Wehner is leaving to become CFO of AI startup Fireworks. source
- 2026-11-04 product_launch Fireworks AI launched a new suite of enterprise products at its Forge event, focusing on speed and cost efficiency for AI agents. source
- 2026-10-24 product_launch Fireworks AI is hosting a buildathon event called "Fireworks: Deploy" in San Francisco on November 2nd. source
- 2026-10-10 controversy Fireworks experienced a security incident involving unauthorized access to its platform. source
- 2026-10-09 product_launch Fireworks AI is hosting an event called Fireworks Forge to discuss agent memory integration. source
- 2026-10-08 product_launch Fireworks AI is hosting an event on domain-specific AI development. source
- 2026-10-07 product_launch Fireworks AI is hosting an event focused on evaluating AI models and agents. source
- 2026-10-06 product_launch Fireworks AI hosted a kickoff event for SF Tech Week, featuring collaborations with major tech companies. source
- 2026-09-30 product_launch Fireworks AI launched a new GLOBAL option for its inference infrastructure, enabling multi-region workload deployment. source
- 2026-09-28 product_launch Fireworks is participating in the AI Engineer 2026 conference, offering hands-on sessions and featuring team members Jetashree Ravi and Rob Ferguson III as speakers. source
- 2026-09-14 product_launch Fireworks AI announced significant performance and cost improvements for Juicebox's talent search infrastructure. source
- 2026-09-08 product_launch Fireworks AI is hosting an event called Forge. source
17 day(s) with sentiment data
-
Hugging Face warns open AI platforms are prime targets for cyberattacks
Hugging Face's chief policy officer has issued a warning regarding the security risks associated with open AI platforms. The executive highlighted that the very openness which attracts hobbyists also makes these platfor…
-
LangChain updates Fireworks integration to v1.7.3
LangChain has released version 1.7.3 of its langchain-fireworks integration. This update includes a fix to default max_tokens based on model profiles and refreshes model profile data.
-
Fireworks AI admits major breach: customer data and model weights stolen · 4 sources tracked
Fireworks AI, a prominent AI inference platform serving thousands of customers including Uber and Shopify, has admitted to a significant security breach. Initially downplaying the incident, Fireworks later confirmed tha…
-
Binance appoints new CFO amid massive hack and trust deficit
Binance has appointed Justin Yek as its new Chief Financial Officer, succeeding Kaiser Ng. Yek, formerly of Airwallex and with experience in investment banking, faces significant challenges including restoring trust aft…
-
Meta Strategy Chief Dave Wehner Joins AI Startup Fireworks as CFO
Dave Wehner, Meta's Chief Strategy Officer, is departing the company after 14 years to join AI inference startup Fireworks as its Chief Financial Officer. This move is seen as a significant executive shift within the te…
-
Meta CSO Dave Wehner joins AI startup Fireworks as CFO; Anthropic adds finance tool to Claude
Meta's Chief Strategy Officer, Dave Wehner, is departing the company after 14 years to assume the role of CFO at Fireworks, an AI startup focused on model training and inference. This move comes as Fireworks was recentl…
-
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Ultrafast now available on AI Gateway via Fireworks
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Ultrafast is now accessible via Fireworks on AI Gateway. This integration, facilitated by Vercel, allows users to leverage the model's capabilities through the platform.
-
AI accelerates cyberattacks, ushering in a 'dark age' for security
Artificial intelligence is significantly disrupting the cybersecurity landscape, leading to an increase in sophisticated hacks and data breaches. Experts like Alex Stamos suggest that the current cybersecurity industry …
-
LLM cost-effectiveness hinges on task success, not just token price
A recent benchmark comparing 10 large language models revealed that the cheapest model per token is not necessarily the most cost-effective for completing tasks. The study, which involved 2,400 runs across 40 command-li…
-
Open model inference market shows near-exponential growth, data suggests
Nathan Lambert's Interconnects Dashboard is an aggregator of data on open model adoption and performance, aiming to provide valuable insights into the growing market for open-source AI models. Despite the challenges of …
-
Fireworks AI launches new products to boost agent speed and cut costs
Fireworks AI has launched a suite of enterprise products aimed at improving AI agent performance and cost-efficiency. The company demonstrated speeds of up to 1,500 tokens per second on its DeepSeek V4.1 Flash model, hi…
-
Nine AI Dev Platforms Breached in "Black October" API Key Heist
In October 2026, a coordinated campaign dubbed "Black October" saw at least nine AI developer platforms suffer security breaches. Attackers specifically targeted and stole API keys for AI models, often within 30 minutes…
-
Replit launches ViBench 2.0 for long-horizon AI software development
Replit has launched ViBench 2.0, a new benchmark designed to evaluate AI models on long-horizon software development tasks. Unlike previous benchmarks that focus on specific coding problems, ViBench 2.0 requires AI agen…
-
K2 model tool-calling accuracy varies widely across 15 providers
A new analysis by Moonshot reveals significant variability in tool-calling accuracy across 15 different providers serving the same K2 model. While the underlying model weights remain identical, performance differences, …
-
vLLM tool-calling failures linked to default server settings, fix available
A common issue with vLLM's tool-calling functionality, particularly when using models like Kimi K2.6 or DeepSeek, stems from a default server configuration that leads to a significant rate of invalid JSON outputs. Ubicl…
-
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to speak at Fireworks Forge event
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is scheduled to participate in a fireside chat at the upcoming Fireworks Forge event. The announcement was made by Fireworks AI, highlighting Huang's role in providing the GPUs essential for AI t…
-
Fireworks AI explores LoRA for efficient LLM fine-tuning
Fireworks AI is exploring the effectiveness of LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) for fine-tuning large language models. Their research indicates that LoRA can teach a massive 2.8 trillion parameter model, such as Kimi K3, a ne…
-
Fireworks AI CEO, formerly of Meta's PyTorch, to keynote Forge event
Fireworks AI, a company specializing in inference infrastructure, is preparing for its Forge event. The company's CEO and co-founder, lqiao, previously led PyTorch at Meta before co-founding Fireworks AI.
-
Superlinked Inference Engine leads RAG platform comparison
The article compares inference platforms for production search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, highlighting the challenges of scaling beyond simple demos to millions of documents. It emphasizes the nee…
-
Fireworks AI, Microsoft, Nvidia host buildathon to showcase open models
Fireworks AI is hosting a buildathon event called "Fireworks: Deploy" in San Francisco on November 2nd. The event challenges participants to demonstrate the capabilities of specialized open models, aiming to show they c…