Brief

Together AI has partnered with Pearl Research Labs to integrate blockchain technology into AI inference costs. This collaboration introduces a new inference endpoint for the Gemma-4-31B-it-pearl model, offering a discount of over 25% by offsetting costs with cryptocurrency emissions from the Pearl Network. The Pearl Network uses a Proof of Useful Work mechanism, where GPU computations for AI tasks simultaneously generate a cryptocurrency called PRL, aiming to fundamentally alter the economics of AI by reducing the price per token. AI

Together AI has released Gemma-4-31B-it-Pearl, an instruction-tuned model based on Gemma 4 31B. This model integrates the Pearl Network's Proof of Useful Work protocol, which generates proofs from existing matrix multiplications during training and inference. Users can access this model via a serverless inference endpoint on Together AI, with a discount on costs. AI