Fireworks co-founder Dmytro Dzhulgakov promoted Ember-1 on X September 27. Ember-1 built from Moonshot Kimi K3; ~40% fewer tokens at comparable quality for coding/agent workloads.
Benchmarks are Fireworks evaluations — not independent reproductions. Two anonymous enterprise customers in A/B tests; one moved to production. Research preview status; permanence depends on community demand.