Fireworks AI

Redwood City, California, United States · AI Core · Compute software / Inference & serving clouds · fireworks.ai

Fireworks AI runs a hosted platform for deploying and serving foundation models such as Mistral and Kimi K2, selling inference infrastructure and APIs.

Positioning

Inference and fine-tuning platform for open models, the most highly valued of the independent inference clouds after its 2026 round; runs on rented GPU capacity, no owned sites.

Latest signals

  • Fireworks AI considering new funding round36Kr newsflashes
  • Harvey launched its in-house Harvey Tenet legal AI model.TechCrunch
  • Fireworks Nexus provides a model-abstraction layer for enterprise-specific intelligence.a16z
  • Fireworks processes 40 trillion tokens per day.TechCrunch
  • Classmethod reduced costs by 27% in initial internal testing with NeMo Switchyard.NVIDIA blogs

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Facts, with sources

  • 100-500mRevenue band · TechCrunch
  • Series D at approximately $17.5 billion valuationFunding round · The Business Perspective, Value Add Pulse
  • NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra became available through six hosted AI platformsProduct launch · NVIDIA blogs
  • Open source equivalent of a shared S3 bucket with content hashing, existing Hugging Face token permission, and native composition with Spaces, datasets, and modelsDeployment · Hugging Face

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Scores, AI Core (of 10)

Deployment8
Production10
Commercials8
Progress10
Technology6
Positioning6
Firepower10
Leverage8

Traction: deployment, production, commercials, progress. Capability: technology, positioning, firepower, leverage.

Peers in Inference & serving clouds

94Baseten · 8096OpenRouter · 76

The segment's suppliers, constraints and risers, for members.

Questions this page answers

What does Fireworks AI do?

Fireworks AI runs a hosted platform for deploying and serving foundation models such as Mistral and Kimi K2, selling inference infrastructure and APIs. Inference and fine-tuning platform for open models, the most highly valued of the independent inference clouds after its 2026 round; runs on rented GPU capacity, no owned sites.

Where does Fireworks AI rank in ai core?

Fireworks AI ranks 95 of 100 on the AI Infra 100 (November 2026 edition) with a score of 80 out of 100, in Inference & serving clouds (Compute software). Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence.

Who are Fireworks AI's peers in Inference & serving clouds?

Baseten (rank 94), OpenRouter (rank 96).

Where is Fireworks AI based and when was it founded?

Fireworks AI is based in Redwood City, California, United States.

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