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- Fireworks serves DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 at more than 1,500 tokens per second on its Ultrafast tier
Fireworks says DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 runs at over 1,521 tokens per second on Fireworks Ultrafast, which is open by waitlist.
- Fireworks AI will retire GPT OSS 120B, Inkling and two Nemotron models from Serverless on November 7
Fireworks AI says several Serverless models will be decommissioned on November 7, 2026: GPT OSS 120B, Inkling, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B, and the US endpoints for MiniMax M3 and GLM 5.3 Flash. It recommends dedicated deployments or replacements such as Muse Spark Open, Nemotron Super VL and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017; dedicated deployments and Reserved Throughput are unaffected. Fireworks also lists DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 and Muse Spark Open as new on Serverless and says MiniMax M3.1 is coming after its open-source release, expected Friday, October 23.
- Fireworks AI adds NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL as a training model with up to 262K context
Fireworks AI says NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B is now available for training on all three of its surfaces, with up to 262K context: Managed Training (LoRA SFT and DPO), the Dedicated Training API (LoRA and full-parameter training, including RL) and Serverless Training (LoRA on the shared pool, billed per token), per its docs changelog.
- Interconnects author @natolambert to speak at Fireworks Forge on how open models win
Fireworks AI says @natolambert, co-founder of Trillium Labs and author of Interconnects, will speak at its Forge event about why so many teams are building on open models.
- Fireworks congratulates Zeta Global on launching Athena Inference Model on its stack
Fireworks AI congratulated Zeta Global on launching the Athena Inference Model (AIM), citing it as another specialized model served to customers on Fireworks.
- Fireworks introduces FireRouter with Opus, its first router model
Fireworks AI introduced FireRouter with Opus, its first router model: routine tasks go to top open models while Claude Opus handles the rest.