# Fireworks AI: physical AI company

Canonical ID: `9d840539-7fcc-4716-b4e6-f3b74cac98fa`

## Key facts

- **Headquarters:** San Mateo, California
- **Founded:** 2022 by ex-Meta PyTorch team led by [Lin Qiao](/people/lin-qiao.md)
- **Positioning:** Inference-focused platform for open-weight LLMs; fine-tuning + serving layer rather than training hyperscaler
- **Announced hourly pricing (through Aug 31, 2026):** H100 80GB and H200 141GB at $7.00/hr on-demand; B200 180GB at $10.00/hr; B300 288GB at $12.00/hr; GB300 288GB at $18.00/hr
- **Announced hourly pricing (from Sep 1, 2026):** H100/H200 rising to $8.00/hr; B200 to $13.00/hr; B300 to $15.00/hr; GB300 to $20.00/hr; region-restricted deployments carry a 1.5x premium
- **Silicon partnerships:** Nvidia-primary fleet (H100, H200, B200, B300, GB300); no AMD or custom silicon disclosed on the public pricing page
- **GPU inventory and MW footprint:** Not publicly disclosed; capacity is reserved and colocated rather than run from owned campuses
- **Named customers:** Cursor, Vercel, Notion, Sourcegraph, UiPath; concentration in agentic-coding and productivity products
- **Series B (Jul 2024):** $52M led by Sequoia Capital
- **Series C (Oct 2025):** $250M at $4B valuation, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Index Ventures
- **Series D (Jul 2026):** $1.51B at $17.5B valuation, led by Atreides Management and Index Ventures; roughly a 4x mark-up in nine months
- **Public / private status:** Private, venture-backed

- **Slug:** fireworks-ai
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 2022
- **HQ:** San Mateo, California, USA
- **Funding total (USD):** 1812000000

## Models

_No models registered._

## Current leadership (1)

- [Lin Qiao](/people/lin-qiao.md) Co-founder and CEO (formerly led PyTorch at Meta) (_reported, not verified_)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

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## Common questions

### What is Fireworks AI?

Fireworks AI is a San Mateo inference platform founded in 2022 by a group of former Meta PyTorch engineers led by CEO Lin Qiao, who ran the PyTorch team before spinning out. Rather than building a proprietary foundation model or standing up its own datacenter campuses, Fireworks positions itself as a serving and fine-tuning layer for open-weight models: developers point at models like Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mixtral and get low-latency inference, LoRA fine-tuning, and reserved GPU capacity behind a single API. Jensen Huang has publicly called the company "the TSMC of AI factories," a framing Fireworks itself now uses in marketing.

### What does Fireworks AI make?

Fireworks AI has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Fireworks AI builds physical robots.

### Is Fireworks AI publicly traded?

No. Fireworks AI is privately held and not publicly traded, per the DEPLOY registry.

### How can I invest in Fireworks AI?

Fireworks AI is a private company; its shares are not available on public markets, so retail investors cannot buy the stock today. It has raised $1.8B in disclosed funding.

### Where is Fireworks AI headquartered?

Fireworks AI is headquartered in San Mateo, California, USA.

### How much funding has Fireworks AI raised?

Fireworks AI has raised approximately $1.8B in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

### Who owns Fireworks AI?

Fireworks AI is privately held and venture-backed ($1.8B raised); ownership sits with its founders and private investors.

### Is Fireworks AI a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Fireworks AI ranks in roughly the top 99% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was Fireworks AI founded?

Fireworks AI was founded in 2022.


## Sources (3)

1. https://fireworks.ai/
2. https://fireworks.ai/pricing
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireworks_AI

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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