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Lin Qiao

Fireworks AI co-founder and CEO; former PyTorch lead at Meta

Every podcast episode featuring Lin Qiao that Attunex has found: 25 interviews and appearances across 24 shows between 2023 and 2026. Most often on Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast (2). Follow Lin in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.

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Updated 2026-10-14.

  1. Training vs. Inference: What Most People Get Wrong About How AI Actually Works with Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AI
    Prompted: AI, People and the Creative Spark

    What if 90% of the world's data is sitting untouched? That's exactly where the real AI frontier lies. In this episode, Cameron Adams sits down with Lin Qiao, co-founder and CEO of Fireworks AI, to…

    2026-10-06
  2. How This AI Startup Grew by 100x in Just 6 Months | Fireworks AI, Lin Qiao | EO
    EO

    How This AI Startup Grew by 100x in Just 6 Months | Fireworks AI, Lin Qiao Fireworks AI is one of the fastest growing AI startup in the industry. Over the past six months, Fireworks AI has…

    2026-10-06
  3. Fireworks AI
    BIG IDEAS BY NEW ECONOMIES

    Subscribe to stay ahead of technology trends. Never miss future editions. Lin Qiao , co-founder and CEO of Fireworks AI , joins us to explain why “a lot of companies will build AI into bankruptcy”…

    2026-09-29
  4. 红杉「Own Your Intelligence」系列专题 2:Fireworks-何时以及如何后训练属于自己的模型
    AI智识录AI

    红杉资本近期发起了一个名为「Own Your Intelligence」的系列专题分享,邀请在"企业自建智能"方面实践最多的几家公司,围绕战略理念、模型后训练、强化学习环境与垂直落地四大议题做系统分享。 模型后训练 的实操方法论由 Fireworks AI CEO Lin Qiao 主讲。作为前 Meta PyTorch 核心工程负责人,她指出 API…

    2026-08-13
  5. 40 Trillion Tokens a Day (Yes, More Than OpenAI) | Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks
    Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

    Should American companies be worried about Chinese open-source AI models? Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks, doesn't think so. In this episode, she joins Lukas Biewald to talk about why she believes the…

    2026-08-03
  6. HackingFace, White House $5B AI Science Bet, Travis Kalanick Joins | Veeral Patel, Lin Qiao, Jason Fried, Travis Kalanick, Max Hodak
    TBPN

    (01:52) - HackingFace (17:48) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (29:02) - White House Puts $5B into AI Science (33:48) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (44:55) - Veeral Patel, Director of Software Engineering at Ramp,…

    2026-07-22
  7. 20VC: Are OpenAI and Anthropic Overvalued? The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10x And Usage Will Explode 100x | The Future Is Not One AGI; It's Millions of Specialised Models with Lin Qiao, Founder and CEO @ Fireworks
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Lin Qiao is the Co-Founder and CEO of Fireworks AI, the leading specialized intelligence and AI inference platform that last week raised $1.5BN at a whopping $17BN valuation. With just 200 people,…

    2026-07-20
  8. 20VC: Fireworks, Open-Source AI & Why Token Costs Could Drop 10X
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    Open-source AI may not converge into one dominant model—instead, Lin Qiao argues intelligence will be distributed across specialized systems. In this condensed summary of 20VC with Harry Stebbings…

    2026-07-20
  9. The Future of AI: Personal Agents, Taste & Private Data | Lin Qiao & Demi Guo | E9
    This Week in AI

    This week we sit down with Lin Qiao and Demi Guo on This Week in AI Episode 9. Lin is the co-founder and CEO of Fireworks AI, a frontier inference platform processing tens of trillions of tokens per…

    2026-04-15
  10. 971: 90% of The World’s Data is Private; Lin Qiao’s Fireworks AI is Unlocking It
    Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

    Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AI, talks to Jon Krohn about how she builds effective models quickly, why coding agents can perform at the level of a junior engineer, and what she attributes to the…

    2026-03-03
  11. When Will Inference Feel Like Electricity? Lin Qiao, co-founder & CEO of Fireworks AI
    Turing Post

    What limits AI today isn’t imagination – it’s the cost of running it at scale. In this episode of Inference, Ksenia Se sits down with Lin Qiao, co-founder & CEO of Fireworks AI (an inference-first…

    2025-08-23
  12. How AI “Thinks”, Amazon vs Trade Desk AdTech, xAI's Talent Pool, and Robotics | Aug 15, 2025
    The Information's TITV

    Kathy Perloff, Theo Wayt, and Shweta Khajuria talk with TITV Host Akash Pasricha about the ad tech rivalry between Amazon and The Trade Desk. We also talk with Theo Wayt about Elon Musk’s xAI and its…

    2025-08-15
  13. Closing the Loop Between AI Training and Inference with Lin Qiao
    The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)

    In this episode, we're joined by Lin Qiao, CEO and co-founder of Fireworks AI. Drawing on key lessons from her time building PyTorch, Lin shares her perspective on the modern generative AI…

    2025-08-12
  14. L'IA aujourd'hui épisode du 2025-05-12
    L'IA aujourd'hui !AI

    Bonjour et bienvenue dans le podcast de l'IA par l’IA qui vous permet de rester à la page ! Aujourd’hui : l'avenir incertain de l'IA, les défis des développeurs, l'impact de ChatGPT sur l'éducation,…

    2025-05-12
  15. L'IA aujourd'hui épisode du 2025-05-11
    L'IA aujourd'hui !AI

    Bonjour et bienvenue dans le podcast de l'IA par l’IA qui vous permet de rester à la page ! Aujourd’hui : l'avenir incertain de l'IA, les défis des développeurs, l'impact de ChatGPT sur l'éducation,…

    2025-05-11
  16. L'IA aujourd'hui épisode du 2025-05-10
    L'IA aujourd'hui !AI

    Bonjour et bienvenue dans le podcast de l'IA par l’IA qui vous permet de rester à la page ! Aujourd’hui : l'avenir incertain de l'IA, les défis des développeurs, l'impact de ChatGPT sur l'éducation,…

    2025-05-10
  17. The Practical Realities of AI Development
    The Data Exchange with Ben Lorica

    Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AI, dives into the practical challenges AI developers face, from UX/DX hurdles to complex systems engineering. Discover key trends like the convergence of open-source and…

    2025-05-08
  18. Why This Ex-Meta Leader is Rethinking AI Infrastructure | Lin Qiao, CEO, Fireworks AI
    The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck

    In 2022, Lin Qiao decided to leave Meta, where she was managing several hundred engineers, to start Fireworks AI. In this episode, we sit down with Lin for a deep dive on her work, starting with her…

    2025-03-27
  19. #30: DeepSeek Deployed, How Open Source Wins, The Small Model Revolution, AI Infrastructure Wars, and the Future of AI w/ Fireworks AI CEO Lin Qiao
    5 Year Frontier

    The future of AI infrastructure. We cover Open Source supremacy, DeepSeek disruption, building small expert models, and staying ahead of the blazing pace of AI innovation. Lin Qiao is the CEO and…

    2025-02-04
  20. Ep 50: Fireworks CEO Lin Qiao on Why There Won’t be a Single Model, Will Hyperscalers Win Inference & AI Use-cases with PMF
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron

    Lin Qiao, the co-founder of Fireworks.ai, sits down for a deep dive into the future of AI. Lin ran the PyTorch team at Meta, which developed some of the most fundamental open-source AI software in…

    2024-12-16
  21. Why Compound AI + Open Source will beat Closed AI
    Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

    We have a full slate of upcoming events: AI Engineer London, AWS Re:Invent in Las Vegas, and now Latent Space LIVE! at NeurIPS in Vancouver and online. Sign up to join and speak! We are still taking…

    2024-11-25
  22. Putting AI into Production with Fireworks AI's Lin Qiao
    Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

    In this episode Scott sit's down with Lin Qiao, the visionary CEO of Fireworks AI - and former head of PyTorch at Meta - to explore the journey of putting AI into production and how Fireworks can…

    2024-11-07
  23. $77M Raised to Build Gen AI Apps Faster and More Efficient
    The SaaS CFO

    Welcome back to The SaaS CFO Podcast! Today, we’re thrilled to have a remarkable guest joining us—Lin Qiao, the CEO and co-founder of Fireworks AI. Lin brings a wealth of expertise from her days as a…

    2024-10-01
  24. #241 Getting Generative AI Into Production with Lin Qiao, CEO and Co-Founder of Fireworks AI
    DataFramed

    Lot’s of AI use-cases can start with big ideas and exciting possibilities, but turning those ideas into real results is where the challenge lies. How do you take a powerful model and make it work…

    2024-09-05
  25. Scaling AI: How Fireworks AI is Transforming the Industry
    Startup Success: A Podcast for Founders & Investors

    In the rapidly evolving world of AI, standing out requires more than just innovation; it demands leadership and a clear vision. Enter Lin Qiao, the driving force behind Fireworks AI, who is…

    2024-08-27
  26. Fireworks Founder Lin Qiao on How Fast Inference and Small Models Will Benefit Businesses
    Training Data

    In the first wave of the generative AI revolution, startups and enterprises built on top of the best closed-source models available, mostly from OpenAI. The AI customer journey moves from training to…

    2024-08-13
  27. EP. 226 Democratizing AI with Fireworks
    The MongoDB Podcast

    In this episode, we chat with Lin Qiao, co-founder of Fireworks, about the innovative ways Fireworks is transforming AI infrastructure. Learn how Fireworks is making AI accessible, cost-effective,…

    2024-07-29
  28. Building AI Infrastructure with Benchmark-backed Fireworks AI Co-Founder Lin Qiao
    "Autopilot" with Will Summerlin

    In this episode, Will Summerlin is joined by Lin Qiao who shares her journey from leading the PyTorch team at Meta to founding Fireworks, a company focused on specialized, customized AI models for…

    2024-05-03
  29. AI Inference: Good, Fast, and Cheap, with Lin Qiao & Dmytro Ivchenko of Fireworks AI
    "The Cognitive Revolution" | AI Builders, Researchers, and Live Player Analysis

    In this episode, we delve into the intricate world of AI inference with cofounders of Firework AI. Discover the strategies behind optimizing AI performance, the importance of balancing latency and…

    2024-04-20
  30. NeurIPS 2023 Recap — Top Startups
    Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

    We are running an end of year listener survey! Please let us know any feedback you have, what episodes resonated with you, and guest requests for 2024! Survey link here. We can’t think of a more…

    2023-12-30