{"id":1028223,"date":"2026-08-12T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028223"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:09:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T03:39:54","slug":"ibm-together-ai-ink-240-million-deal-for-nvidia-powered-ai-inference-cluster-2","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-2\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM, Together AI ink $240 million deal for Nvidia-powered AI inference cluster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM and startup Together AI have signed a $240 million multi-year agreement to build a large-scale artificial intelligence cluster on IBM Cloud using Nvidia systems, the companies said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The cluster will provide inference for open-source AI models, \u200cwhich have \u2060gained \u2060traction 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 running trained AI models to generate responses, has become one of the largest drivers \u200bof demand for computing capacity, prompting \u2060cloud providers \u200cand chipmakers to spend billions of \u200bdollars expanding \u200bAI infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM and startup Together AI have signed a $240 million multi-year agreement to build a large-scale artificial intelligence cluster on IBM Cloud using Nvidia systems, the companies said on Tuesday. The cluster will provide inference for open-source AI models, \u200cwhich have \u2060gained \u2060traction 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 running trained AI models to generate responses, has become one of the largest drivers \u200bof demand for computing capacity, prompting \u2060cloud providers \u200cand chipmakers to spend billions of \u200bdollars expanding \u200bAI 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-1028223","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\/1028223","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=1028223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028250,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028223\/revisions\/1028250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}