Together AI

AI & Machine Learning

Definitions

  1. A cloud platform for running, fine-tuning, and training open-source AI models. Together AI provides an inference API for popular open models (LLaMA, Mistral, Mixtral, and others), custom fine-tuning pipelines, and distributed training infrastructure. The platform emphasizes the open-source AI ecosystem, making it easy for developers to switch between models and avoid vendor lock-in to proprietary providers like OpenAI. Together AI's research team has contributed to open-source models and datasets, and the company advocates for open AI development. The platform offers OpenAI-compatible API endpoints, making it a drop-in replacement for applications built on proprietary APIs. It competes with Replicate, Fireworks AI, and Anyscale in the open-model inference market.

    In plain English: A cloud service for running open-source AI models without managing your own GPUs. Use popular models through a simple API, fine-tune them on your data, or train new ones.

    Example: We migrated from OpenAI to Together AI running LLaMA 3 70B. The API is compatible, so we just changed the base URL and saved 60% on costs.