IBM and Together AI Sign $240m Nvidia HGX B300 Cloud Deployment Deal
The multi-year pact will use Nvidia HGX B300 systems to run open-source AI models and help enterprises lower inference costs, the companies said.
- On Tuesday, IBM and Together AI signed a $240 million multi-year agreement to build a large-scale AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud using Nvidia HGX B300 systems for enterprise workloads.
- IBM shifted focus toward running AI efficiently, prioritizing affordable model inference over expensive training runs as enterprises increasingly seek to reduce operational costs. This strategy positions IBM to capture demand in the growing inference market.
- The cluster features about 2,000 Nvidia Blackwell 300 chips designed to accelerate open-source AI deployment. Dion Harris, Senior Director of HPC and AI Infrastructure Solutions at NVIDIA, called such infrastructure 'essential enterprise infrastructure.'
- Cybersecurity concerns about closed systems from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta drive enterprises toward open-source models. Together AI's platform lets organizations host and inspect infrastructure themselves, addressing data security priorities.
- Valued at $8.3 billion as of July, Together AI expects significant demand for this capacity. CEO Vipul Ved Prakash said enterprises want 'the performance of the best frontier models without the closed-model price tag.
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IBM and startup Together AI have signed a multi-year agreement of $240 million to build a large-scale artificial intelligence hardware infrastructure at IBM Cloud using Nvidia systems, companies said on Tuesday (11). The cluster will provide inference to open-source AI models, which gained strength as companies seek to reduce AI costs and assess concerns with cyber security incidents involving Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta models.
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IBM and Together AI Sign Multi-Year Agreement to Scale Open-Source AI Inference with NVIDIA AI Infrastructure on IBM Cloud
/PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a collaboration with Together AI to deliver IBM and NVIDIA AI infrastructure. Under a multi-year $240M agreement...
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