#Fireworks AI

Bessemer's Dholakia on AI Growth and Competition

Bessemer Venture Partners' Sameer Dholakia discusses the competitive AI landscape, the moats of frontier models, and the rapid growth of AI startups like Fireworks.

Fireworks raised $1.5B selling the opposite of what DeepSeek is building. Both closed in the same week.

The market placed two opposite bets on AI inference in the same week. Plus: robotics raised $737M without calling it a robotics week, Anthropic launched a $1.5B services firm, and pre-seed nearly vanished.

Fireworks AI raises $250M to advance its AI inference platform