The AI boom isn't slowing down; it's accelerating. Lin Qiao, a former Meta engineer who helped build PyTorch , now runs Fireworks AI, a $4 billion startup processing 15 trillion AI tokens a day, and she says demand is only just getting started. "This is the year token consumption is going to grow exponentially," Qiao told me in a recent interview. Fireworks AI's inference cloud platform is now processing roughly 15 trillion AI tokens per day, up from 13 trillion just a few months ago and 10