It was a big pleasure hosting Dmytro Dzhulgakov (Co-founder and CTO of Fireworks AI) for a conversation with Icons!
We talked about his journey from competing at IOI, ICPC, and Google Code Jam to helping build PyTorch at Meta. Dima also shared the story behind founding Fireworks and why the team made a bet on inference even before ChatGPT came out.
My biggest takeaway: Companies should stay in control of their own AI future by building specialized intelligence around their own data and needs.
Dima, thank you for the great conversation!
Thanks to Beta University for supporting the event.