Together AI

Together AI is a company that provides a cloud platform for artificial intelligence, specifically focusing on helping developers work with large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI models. Think of them as a service that gives you the tools and computing power to use, customize, and deploy powerful AI, without needing to set up all the complex infrastructure yourself.

Their main focus is on making open-source models more accessible. Open-source models are AI models whose underlying code and data are freely available for anyone to inspect, use, and modify. Together AI believes in the power of open innovation and aims to reduce the barriers for developers and businesses to utilize these powerful AI tools. They provide a platform where you can easily run these models, fine-tune them with your own data to make them better at specific tasks, and then integrate them into your applications.

Together AI offers various services, including an inference platform where you can send requests to different AI models and get responses, much like using an API. They also provide tools for fine-tuning, which means taking an existing AI model and training it further on a smaller, more specific dataset to improve its performance for a particular use case, like generating text in a specific style or answering questions about a specialized topic. They also contribute to the open-source AI community by hosting and optimizing many popular models.

Founded in 2022, Together AI is based in San Francisco and was started by a team with a strong background in AI research and infrastructure. Their goal is to create an open and decentralized cloud platform for AI, aiming to democratize access to advanced AI capabilities. They play a significant role in the AI ecosystem by providing alternatives to proprietary (closed-source) AI services and fostering innovation through open access.