IBM inks $240M infrastructure deal with AI-optimized cloud operator Together AI – SiliconANGLE

IBM inks 0M infrastructure deal with AI-optimized cloud operator Together AI – SiliconANGLE

By @SiliconANGLE
Publication Date: 2026-08-12 00:36:00

IBM Corp. will provide infrastructure to artificial intelligence startup Together AI Inc. as part of a $240 million deal announced today.

The partnership comes a few weeks after the latter company raised $800 million in funding. The consortium that provided the capital included Nvidia Corp., whose chips IBM will use to run Together AI’s workloads. 

San Francisco-based Together AI operates a cloud platform optimized for machine learning. The platform runs on infrastructure that the company rents from partners such as Amazon Web Services Inc. Developers can use it to train custom AI models, fine-tune existing ones and perform inference. IBM disclosed today that the platform processes about 400 trillion tokens per month for customers.

The infrastructure deal announced today will see the tech giant deploy a “large cluster” of HGX B300 systems for Together AI. The hardware will become available through IBM Cloud in the first half of 2027.

The HGX B300 is a motherboard…