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40 Trillion Tokens a Day (Yes, More Than OpenAI) | Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks

from Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

Should American companies be worried about Chinese open-source AI models?Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks, doesn't think so.In this episode, she joins Lukas Biewald to talk about why she believes the industry is at a turning point, one that calls for more open intelligence, not less.They cover how Fireworks now processes more tokens a day than OpenAI's API, why she thinks the future belongs to specialized models built on private company data rather than general-purpose ones, and why she believes OpenAI and Anthropic should be open-sourcing their own models too.Connect with us here:Lin QiaoFireworksLukas BiewaldWeights and Biases

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