Fireworks

Lin Qiao, who led the development of PyTorch at Meta before co-founding Fireworks, joins Nasdaq's Kristina Ayanian to discuss why she left one of the most impactful roles in machine learning to build a platform that makes generative AI fast, reliable, and production-ready. She also unpacks Fireworks' landmark partnership with Microsoft Foundry, what it meant to be the day-zero launch partner for NVIDIA's NemoClaw, and shares her bold vision for what comes next as we move beyond the agent era into 2026.