Stop Renting Intelligence: The Train-to-Deploy Loop for Specialized AI — Fireworks AI
Jetashree Ravi, who leads part of the applied machine learning team at Fireworks AI, explains how teams move from closed models to open ones without losing quality.
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Key points
- Closed models are getting expensive fast.
- Open models can match them, if you keep training them on your own data.
- Her three truths: open models like GLM 5.2 are production-ready, customization closes the remaining quality gap, and the AI stack is shifting to a continuous train-and-serve loop.
- • Hot loading and numerical fidelity for a continuous train-and-deploy loop
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- [1]Stop Renting Intelligence: The Train-to-Deploy Loop for Specialized AI — Fireworks AIAI Engineer (YouTube) · Oct 11, 10:30 PM
Jetashree Ravi, who leads part of the applied machine learning team at Fireworks AI, explains how teams move from closed models to open ones without losing quality.
Closed models are getting expensive fast.
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