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Together AI

Together AI

software
Last discussed Oct 17, 2026

AI inference platform and API provider

How Together AI compares

3 creators weighed in
Fireworks AI Direct rival
AI inference platform

Both are inference providers creators name in the same breath as top alternatives to big cloud companies.

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3 creators
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Alex Atallah

"They're using the inference providers like Fireworks and Together."

Grouped with Fireworks as top inference providers vs. hyperscalers

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Anastasios Angelopoulos

"I'm going to allow inference providers like a Fireworks or Together or whatever to deploy this model."

Mentioned alongside Fireworks AI as example inference providers

This Week in Startups

"A lot of companies are helping startups fine-tune and post-train their own models. Companies like Fireworks.ai and a number of other ones — Together AI, Thinking Machines Lab, Mistral, etc."

Mentioned alongside Fireworks.ai, Thinking Machines Lab, and Mistral as similar services

What creators say

Y Combinator
mentioned

"We already have Dan Fu committed from Together AI to talk about inference."

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Emad Mostaque
mentioned

"Together AI, Modal, Baseten are all running at billion dollar run rates running open models, and it'd be good if they ran American models versus Chinese models."

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Jack Altman
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"You have Modal, Baseten, Fireworks, fal, Together, and it's just all worked."

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Alex Atallah
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Used for: Hosting and serving open-weight AI models vs: Grouped with Fireworks as top inference providers vs. hyperscalers

"They're using the inference providers like Fireworks and Together."

More from Alex Atallah →
vs: Mentioned alongside Fireworks AI as example inference providers

"I'm going to allow inference providers like a Fireworks or Together or whatever to deploy this model."

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Stuart Sul
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Used for: Optimizing inference workloads

"Together AI is also using Parallel Kittens to optimize its inference workloads."

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John Coogan
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"We have Vipple from Together AI, building open-source AI cloud infrastructure, coming on the show."

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Used for: Fine-tuning and post-training AI models for startups vs: Mentioned alongside Fireworks.ai, Thinking Machines Lab, and Mistral as simil...

"A lot of companies are helping startups fine-tune and post-train their own models. Companies like Fireworks.ai and a number of other ones — Together AI, Thinking Machines Lab, Mistral, etc."

More from This Week in Startups →
TBPN
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"They have a partnership with Together AI that got tweeted out"

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