IBM and Together AI have signed a $240m deal to build an Nvidia Blackwell inference cluster on IBM Cloud, a wager on the economics of open-source AI over closed rivals.

Aug 11 : 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…

The cluster will provide inference for open-source AI models, which have gained traction as businesses seek to rein in AI costs and weigh concerns about cybersecurity…