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▶ 14:11 · $CURSOR · Cursor achieves frontier-level coding quality via deep post-training on Fireworks
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When (and How) to Post-Train Your Own AI Models | Lin Qiao, Fireworks

2026-08-12 · 4 company · 10 thematic
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lin qiao

Lin Qiao (Lynn Quo) founded Fireworks AI after 7 years at Meta (Facebook) where she worked on distributed systems and databases. She started the company at age 48 after deliberately building leadership skills. Fireworks provides a specialized intelligence platform for model customization and inference, processing 40T+ tokens/day with $800M ARR.

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“Cursor is one of the few. They have started onboarding getting onto this train from the beginning of last year. Uh there are multiple reasons. One is they really want to control their destiny of the supply of the model. And obviously, um t…”
—lin qiao
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