Companies sprinting to launch AI applications all run into the same hurdle: computing power and its cost. To scale from thousands of customers to millions, you must foot a big bill. That’s where CEO Lin Qiao and Fireworks AI comes in.

The startup aims to help businesses ship new AI products in as few as five days at minimal cost. It does so by offering a better way to train AI models, which squeezes higher performance from existing hardware, reducing the need to spend more money on fancier graph- ics processing units (GPUs).

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