IBM and Together AI Sign $240M Deal for NVIDIA AI Infrastructure – HPCwire

First large-scale inference cluster with Together AI on IBM Cloud using NVIDIA HGX B300 systems to help enterprises run AI workloads, designed for fast and efficient production

ARMONK, N.Y. and SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11, 2026 — IBM has announced a collaboration with Together AI to deliver IBM and NVIDIA AI infrastructure. Under a multi-year $240M agreement between IBM and Together AI, IBM is positioned to deploy a large cluster of NVIDIA HGX B300 systems on IBM Cloud with expected availability in Q1 2027. Together AI will use this cluster to provide open-source model inference. This deployment is the first dedicated, large-scale cluster built for inference on IBM Cloud using HGX B300 systems and NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking. According to NVIDIA, it is built to deliver 30x more AI factory output compared to prior generations.

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