The Stack
The Stack — September 28, 2026
12:39
Daily IT Briefing
AI & Machine Learning
Fireworks Research ships Ember-1, a reasoning-efficiency play. The model is built on top of Kimi K3 and claims to match K3's output quality while consuming roughly 35–50% fewer reasoning tokens. The underlying problem is real and well understood: reasoning models burn most of their generated tokens on internal "thinking," and in multi-turn agentic loops…