Key HighlightsInternational Business Machines and Together AI announced a multi-year $240 million partnership to develop a massive AI inference cluster within IBM Cloud. Together AI plans to utilize the cluster for operating open-source AI models, processing 400 trillion tokens each month. International Business Machines has partnered with Together AI in a substantial $240 million multi-year collaboration to construct a massive AI inference cluster within IBM Cloud, utilizing cutting-edge Nvidia hardware. IBM Cloud’s general manager, Alan Peacock, highlighted that IBM and Nvidia are providing “scalable, economical, enterprise-grade AI infrastructure” through this collaboration. Nvidia’s Hardware AdvantageThe Blackwell processors central to this partnership represent Nvidia’s most recent generation, specifically engineered for AI inference operations.