IBM and Together AI Sign a 240 Million Dollar Inference Deal
IBM announced on August 11, 2026 that it has signed a multi-year agreement with Together AI to run open-source AI inference on IBM Cloud. Everything below comes from IBM's own press release. Nothing is deployed yet: IBM gives expected availability as the first quarter of 2027, and its release states that comments on future direction are goals and objectives only, subject to change without notice.
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IBM and Together AI signed a two hundred forty million dollar deal today for open-source inference.
IBM announced a collaboration with Together AI. The multi-year agreement covers a large cluster of NVIDIA HGX B300 systems deployed on IBM Cloud, using NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking.
Together AI will use the cluster for open-source model inference. The company reports serving four hundred trillion tokens monthly, and recently raised eight hundred million dollars in financing.
Nothing is running yet. Expected availability is the first quarter of 2027. IBM says statements about its future direction are goals and objectives only, and subject to change.
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- ARMONK, N.Y. and SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a collaboration with Together AI to deliver IBM and NVIDIA AI infrastructure.(IBM's official announcement)
- 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.(IBM's official announcement)
- 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.(IBM's official announcement)
- Together AI will use this cluster to provide open-source model inference.(IBM's official announcement)
- 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.(IBM's official announcement)
- The company reports that it has seen significant momentum for its inference product, now serving 400 trillion tokens monthly.(IBM's official announcement)
- The company recently raised an $800M Series C financing round at an $8.3B valuation to expand its AI Native Cloud and its platform spans capabilities across inference, training, fine tuning, and agentic workflows.(IBM's official announcement)
- Together AI selected IBM with NVIDIA because of their innovative product roadmaps and their ability to deliver GPU capacity at the pace required for rapid AI scaling and lowest token cost.(IBM's official announcement)
- Statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only.(IBM's official announcement)