Fireworks CEO Lin Qiao said the company’s enterprise zero data retention (ZDR) setting does not erase previously uploaded batch files, leaving businesses to remove them from their accounts.
The account-wide setting is off by default. When enabled, it blocks batch jobs and file uploads that require storage. Fireworks says it does not retain copies after a customer deletes the files.
Qiao identified Chat Completions, Nexus and serverless training as services where ZDR is available. She said OpenAI, Amazon Web Services and Google use a similar model for their batch interfaces. Qiao linked the storage requirement to batch processing’s reliance on files, which sets it apart from individual inference requests.
Conversations associated with Notion Insights, a workspace analytics feature, were processed by Fireworks. Notion said the conversations at issue came from fewer than 1% of its workspaces and that its contract barred Fireworks from retaining them.
