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

With power, datacenter capacity, and other supply chain constraints, AI infrastructure is in short supply, and service providers will rent all the compute they can get, even if it means working with competing cloud providers. Together AI is the latest example. This week the service provider announced a $240 million deal to run its open weights inference platform on a “large cluster” of Nvidia GPUs housed in IBM Cloud. “Together AI selected IBM with Nvidia because of their innovative product roadmaps and their ability to deliver GPU capacity at the pace required for rapid AI scaling and lowest token cost,” IBM's announcement says. Translation: Together AI tapped IBM because Big Blue had the capacity it needed when it needed it....

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