IBM, Together AI Ink $240 Million Agreement to Scale AI Deployments
By Connor Hart
International Business Machines inked a $240 million agreement with Together AI to scale artificial-intelligence deployments across infrastructure and software.
Under a multiyear collaboration, IBM said it will deploy a large cluster of Nvidia HGX B300 systems across its cloud, expected to come online in the first quarter of 2027. Together AI will then use the systems, which enable advanced AI and high-performance computing workloads, to provide open-source model inference.
The companies on Tuesday said the collaboration aims to help Together AI continue its expansion into the enterprise space, while also making open-source AI more accessible to developers and enterprises around the world.
Together AI said open-source models are essential for the future of AI. The company, which recently raised an $800 million Series C financing round at an $8.3 billion valuation, continues working to expand its capabilities across inference, training, fine tuning and agentic workflows.
"Enterprises want the performance of the best frontier models without the closed-model price tag, and that only works if the infrastructure underneath is fast and reliable at scale," Together AI Chief Executive Vipul Ved Prakash said. "Working alongside IBM with Nvidia gives us that foundation."
Write to Connor Hart at connor.hart@wsj.com
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August 11, 2026 09:31 ET (13:31 GMT)
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