IBM Teams Up with Together AI for $240 Million Neo-Cloud Venture
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) has signed a multi-year deal worth $240 million with Together AI to scale open-source AI inference on IBM Cloud using NVIDIA's HGX B300 systems.
The agreement, which is expected to come online in the first quarter of 2027, will involve deploying a large cluster of NVIDIA HGX B300 systems and Spectrum-X Ethernet networking on IBM Cloud.
This move puts IBM in the neo-cloud business, as per Nasdaq News. The partnership aims to leverage Together AI's expertise in open-source AI inference with NVIDIA's infrastructure on IBM Cloud.