A prospective employee and commenters express concern that Fireworks AI's business is vulnerable to commoditization, citing a "race to the bottom on inference costs" in the AI infrastructure space.

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        "excerpt": "I just accepted an offer for Fireworks GTM team. My sense in speaking with Fireworks LT as well as some VC investing in inference, is that the inference space will be commoditized. There is an insane amount of demand right now (I see this in my current role), but GPU capacity will catch up and hyperscalers will move into the space. The category successes will be the inference providers who reinves",
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