Fireworks AI's Asteroids demo shows why faster agents matter

Business Insider · Alistair Barr · 2026-11-06 15:11 UTC

A Fireworks AI demo recreated Asteroids in about five seconds and upgraded it in 15, showing how faster models could make AI agents more useful.

I attended the Fireworks AI conference in San Francisco on Tuesday and met the company's VP of technology and strategy, Rob Ferguson.

He showed me a stunning demo in which an AI model running on Fireworks' systems created a video game from scratch in about five seconds. (A LOT faster than Claude Code, by the way.)

The game was Asteroids. Watching Rob play it brought childhood memories flooding back.

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