{"id":1028172,"date":"2026-08-12T07:40:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028172"},"modified":"2026-08-12T07:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:24:06","slug":"ibm-together-ai-ink-240-million-deal-for-nvidia-powered-ai-inference-cluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/12\/ibm-together-ai-ink-240-million-deal-for-nvidia-powered-ai-inference-cluster\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM, Together AI ink $240 million deal for Nvidia-powered AI inference cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM and startup Together AI \u200bhave signed a $240 \u200bmillion multi-year agreement to build \u200ba large-scale artificial intelligence cluster on IBM Cloud using Nvidia systems, the companies said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The \u200ccluster will \u2060provide \u2060inference for open-source AI models, which have gained traction as businesses seek to rein in AI costs and weigh concerns about cybersecurity incidents involving models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta. <\/p>\n<p>Inference, the process of \u2060running trained \u200cAI models to generate \u200bresponses, has \u200bbecome one of the largest \u2060drivers of demand for computing capacity, \u200bprompting cloud providers and chipmakers to \u200bspend billions of dollars expanding AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM and startup Together AI \u200bhave signed a $240 \u200bmillion multi-year agreement to build \u200ba large-scale artificial intelligence cluster on IBM Cloud using Nvidia systems, the companies said on Tuesday. The \u200ccluster will \u2060provide \u2060inference for open-source AI models, which have gained traction as businesses seek to rein in AI costs and weigh concerns about cybersecurity incidents involving models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta. Inference, the process of \u2060running trained \u200cAI models to generate \u200bresponses, has \u200bbecome one of the largest \u2060drivers of demand for computing capacity, \u200bprompting cloud providers and chipmakers to \u200bspend billions of dollars expanding AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028195,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028172\/revisions\/1028195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}