IBM, Together AI team to offer open-source AI inference in the cloud

A hybrid environment on IBM Cloud powered by Nvidia GPUs connected with Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet networking and Together AI’s inference platform gives organizations a reliable foundation to build, deploy and scale AI systems, IBM stated. In addition, the technology behind the agreement is important to IBM as it relies on infrastructure it is working to develop with Nvidia. The two vendors recently expanded their collaboration to grow the use of GPU-native data analytics, intelligent document processing, on-premises and regulated infrastructure deployments to help enterprise customers move AI from pilot to production, according to IBM.

Vipul Ved Prakash, CEO at Together AI, said the collaboration with IBM will help Together AI continue its expansion into the enterprise space and make open-source AI more accessible to developers and enterprises. “Working alongside IBM with Nvidia gives us that foundation. This cluster lets us bring production-grade inference to…