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THE SPECIALIZED INTELLIGENCE INDEX BY FIREWORKS

The most ambitious companies are training specialized models to outperform the frontier in their domain. But we still turn to public benchmarks that track progress in generalized intelligence, not how a model performs on your real work. That's why we need specialized benchmarks, built by practitioners who understand the work and the standard it has to meet. The Specialized Intelligence Index (SII) [4] brings together real-work benchmarks across industries, featuring benchmarks from organizations including Harvey, Genspark, Mercor, Doximity, Rogo, and more.

TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR AI COSTS WITH AMD

As AI agents take on more work, cloud inference costs can grow with every task. THE AMD TOKENOMICS CALCULATOR [5] helps you understand the economics of your AI workloads and OPTIMIZE TOKEN SPEND. * UNDERSTAND YOUR AI COSTS. Model infrastructure costs to see how token usage translates into ongoing spend. * UNLOCK THE ECONOMICS OF LOCAL AI. See how running AI locally can reduce cloud inference costs and decrease token spend. * REDUCE RECURRING AI COSTS. High-performance agentic PCs featuring AMD processors run multiple agents locally, completing tasks up to 6X FASTER [6] while reducing reliance on cloud inference.

AGENT RELIABILITY PATTERNS: ON-DEMAND GUIDES

Almost right, but not quite” is developers' most-cited AI frustration in Stack Overflow's 2025 survey, and it stops being tolerable once AI agents handle production work. The shift reaches ordinary AI features too. Anything that chains model calls into multi-step work inherits the same failure classes. Building Agentic Systems on AWS turns them into teachable patterns: on-demand technical guides and workshops on orchestration, state that survives sessions and restarts, failure recovery, human approval gates, and evaluation that tests whether a change made the agent worse. START WITH THE AGENT SERIES IN AWS MARKETPLACE [4].

HOW WE ACCELERATED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT 10X, WITH A SECURE SOFTWARE FACTORY

Everyone can ship fast. The challenge is shipping reliably, securely, and autonomously, with minimal human involvement or none at all. Join Dr. Ariel Shiftan, Co-Founder & CTO of Autonomous Security [5], for an inside look at the architecture behind their autonomous software factory: * How AI agents move from tasks to end-to-end delivery * The risks of long-running AI workflows, and how to keep them

YOUR PAYMENT PROGRAM IS ONLY AS GOOD AS THE PARTNER BEHIND IT.

Payment decisions compound. The infrastructure you choose today shapes your product roadmap for years, from commercial payments to stablecoin-backed cards, getting them right takes more than a capable platform. It takes a partner built to scale with you, engineered for reliability, and ready to go the distance, not just the first mile. Marqeta powers modern card issuing for the world's leading companies, with the flexibility and uptime your roadmap demands.

YOUR AI VISIBILITY SCORE WENT UP. YOUR WEBSITE TRAFFIC DIDN'T.

94% of B2B buyers now use AI somewhere in their buying journey, so prompt tracking was a reasonable first move. Build a prompt list, get a score. Ask the same question twice and the answer comes back different. It tells you that you dropped. Not why, not which page, not what to fix. Join GrowthX CEO Marcel Santilli on Oct 22: WHAT 10,000 HOURS OF AI VISIBILITY TAUGHT US [5]. Five lessons from 2.6 million AI responses, plus the playbook. Free, virtual, replay for everyone who registers!

WHAT DO CURSOR, OPENAI, ANTHROPIC, NOTION, AIRBNB, NVIDIA, UBER, META, PIERRE AND BUN HAVE IN COMMON?

Buildkite, the pro-tool that hands you building blocks for CI orchestration and then gets out of the way. Enough with constant downtime. No more band-aids or burden. We provide programmable primitives you co-ordinate, running only what changes, across any cloud, any chip, your secrets, your infra. Control without compromise. Build faster, more securely, more reliably, with the CI engineered for frontier scale, used by the teams setting the pace.

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