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Together AI raises $800M for open-source AI inference platform

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Together AI has secured $800 million in Series C funding to advance its mission of making open-source AI widely accessible. The company focuses on providing an efficient inference platform for open-weight models, enabling companies to significantly reduce costs compared to proprietary alternatives. This funding will support their compute growth and continued innovation in the AI inference stack, including research into optimized kernels and compilers. AI

IMPACT Accelerates the development and adoption of open-source AI models by providing cost-effective inference solutions.

RANK_REASON Significant funding round for an AI infrastructure company. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=1 ai=0.7]

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Together AI raises $800M for open-source AI inference platform

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. X — Together (inference / OSS) TIER_1 English(EN) · togethercompute ·

    See how our latest funding round accelerates the shift to open-source AI: https://t.co/tVtdZMEVvU

    See how our latest funding round accelerates the shift to open-source AI: https://t.co/tVtdZMEVvU

  2. Together AI blog TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Announcing our $800M Series C to accelerate the shift to open-source AI

    We raised $800M to accelerate the shift to open-source AI. Here's why the economics of closed models don't scale, and what we're building next.

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