Inference startups boom: Together hits $1.2B bookings, Fireworks tops $1B ARR
togethercompute · x · 2026-10-15
Per DealBook, enterprise AI adoption is driving explosive growth for inference startups: Together AI reached $1.2B in annual bookings as of July, Fireworks AI crossed $1B annualized revenue over the summer, and Baseten's annualized revenue tripled to $600M in Q1.
McKinsey projects inference demand in data centers to grow 36% a year through 2030, when inference will account for 42% of data center workloads vs. 28% for training. Companies using open-weight models increasingly rely on specialized inference providers to serve models and optimize compute.
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