Together, Providing Cloud Infrastructure for AI Technologies, Receives Investment

Generative AI companies continue to raise large amounts of capital to fuel their commercial and, in some cases, open source ambitions. See Together, a startup building open source generative AI and AI model development infrastructure, announced that it has completed a $102.5 million Series A funding round led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from Nvidia and Emergence Capital. According to co-founder and CEO Vipul Ved Prakash, the tranche, which is more than five times larger than the company's previous round, will go towards expanding Together's cloud platform, which allows developers to build open and custom models.

Currently, Together operates a network of data centres spanning the cloud in the US and EU, including servers operated by its partners Crusoe Cloud and Vultr, providing a total of around 20 exaflops of computing. Customers include Pika Labs, NexusFlow, Voyage AI and Cartesia. Some of these also benefit from Together's model serving APIs.

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Vipul co-founded Together, which was launched in June 2022 with Ce Zhang, Chris Re and Percy Liang. Prakash had previously founded Topsy, the social media search platform acquired by Apple in 2013. He later became a senior executive there as well. With Together, Prakash, Zhang, Re and Liang aim to create open-source models and services to help organisations incorporate AI into their applications. To this end, Together has built a cloud platform to run, train and fine-tune open source models that the co-founders claim offer scalable computing at lower prices than dominant vendors (e.g. Google Cloud, AWS, Azure).