Together AI
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Together AI is the open-source model hosting platform that competes on price and speed. They host Llama, Mixtral, and dozens of open models with an OpenAI-compatible API. It's like a discount airline for AI inference — same destination, lower price, and they've actually figured out how to make it fast.
Real Talk
A cloud platform specializing in hosting and serving open-source AI models with an OpenAI-compatible API. It offers inference, fine-tuning, and custom model deployment with competitive pricing, low latency, and support for models from Meta, Mistral, and the open-source community.
When You'll Hear This
"Together AI serves our Llama 3 inference at half the cost of running it on our own GPUs." / "The OpenAI-compatible API means switching from GPT-4 to Mixtral on Together was a one-line URL change."
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