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Together AI embraces the competition with $240M IBM Cloud deal

Deal to fund 'large' deployment of Nvidia's last-gen HGX B300 systems launching in Q1 2027

Together AI embraces the competition with $240M IBM Cloud deal

Together AI has secured a $240 million deal to run its open weights inference platform on Nvidia GPUs housed in IBM Cloud. The decision was based on IBM's innovative product roadmaps and ability to deliver GPU capacity at a rapid pace, allowing Together AI to scale quickly while keeping costs low. Together AI is a prominent player in the AI inference ecosystem, offering a service that enables users to easily consume hardware for applications such as inference, fine-tuning, and training.

The company's main value proposition is providing an OpenAI-compatible API endpoint for inference, which can run on various hardware depending on price performance. In this case, Together AI is utilizing Nvidia B300 GPUs, which are part of IBM's initial large-scale deployment of this architecture for inference applications.

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