Post-Training Is How You Keep Your Taste | Fireworks CEO Lin Qiao
Post-training is the primary moat for AI application companies over black-box APIs
“right now, with one person, a few weeks, uh without understanding how to write a single line of code, you can do that”
Fireworks AI CEO Lin Qiao argues that the collapse of development timelines (from team-quarters to solo-weeks) is pushing companies away from off-the-shelf APIs toward post-training as a durable competitive differentiator. The talk frames post-training not as a research concern but as a business strategy for building defensible AI products. This aligns with broader open-model momentum and positions Fireworks as an enabler of that shift.