Lin Qiao

“"I had Lin Qiao, the founder of Fireworks, on the show the other day. And she was like, exactly that is why we'll have specialized models for every single company."”

“I really believe the future will not be a few small number of AGI models dominant world. I really believe the future will be — it may be scary but I think that's true — it will be millions of specialized models, one per application per use case.”

“Fireworks AI CEO Lin Qiao said on X Wednesday that the company surpassed $800 million in annualized revenue, up from $250 million in late October last year... in talks to raise at $15B valuation.”

“Fireworks surged from $250M to $800M ARR in roughly seven months.”