Exploring Fireworks AI: Open Source Models for Customizable, Efficient Inference

Welcome to Fireworks, a company that's revolutionizing AI with open-source models, led by my co-founder Lino and me, and today I'll be discussing our journey in productionizing open models for various applications.

  • 1. Dima, co-founder of Fireworks AI, is speaking about open source models for general applications.
  • 2. The founding team of Fireworks comes from PCH leads at Meta and some veterans from Google AI.
  • 3. They have a decade of experience in productionizing AI for some of the biggest companies in the world.
  • 4. Dima has been a core maintainer of PyTorch for the past 5 years, and is passionate about open source.
  • 5. Fireworks AI focuses on producing open source models for general applications.
  • 6. Currently, most production inference is still based on proprietary models.
  • 7. Proprietary models are often good, but limited in customization and flexibility.
  • 8. Open source models allow for greater customization and control.
  • 9. Fireworks AI has developed a range of open source models for different applications.
  • 10. These models can be used for early prototyping or scaled up to enterprise level.
  • 11. Fireworks AI is running production for many companies, serving over 150 billion tokens per day.
  • 12. Dima believes that the future of AI is moving towards compound AI systems, where models are not the product, but rather a part of a bigger system.
  • 13. These compound AI systems will include grounding and external knowledge bases, as well as multiple types of models and external tools.
  • 14. Fireworks AI sees function calling agents as the core of this emerging architecture.
  • 15. They have developed a series of models for function calling, such as Fire Function V.
  • 16. These models allow for efficient function calling chat capabilities with contextual awareness.
  • 17. Dima encourages the audience to try out Fireworks AI and see what they can build with open models and tools like Fire Function.
  • 18. Fireworks AI is open API compatible, so developers can use their favorite tools or frameworks like PyTorch or Hugging Face.
  • 19. Dima believes that open source models will democratize AI and make it more accessible to everyone.
  • 20. Fireworks AI is committed to empowering developers and companies with the tools they need to succeed in the world of AI.

Source: AI Engineer via YouTube

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