Vipul Ved Prakash
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- RAISE Summit18 min
AI Sticker Shock: Open Source as the Answer to Broken Tokenomics | Vipul Ved Prakash | RAISE 2026
TogetherAI, led by Co-founder Vinod Khosla, recently achieved a $8.3 billion valuation after scaling inference volume to 400 trillion tokens monthly while expanding its user base from $100 million to over $1 billion in annual revenue. The company is driving a strategic pivot toward open-source models to address economic pressures and geopolitical sovereignty concerns, countering the dominance of closed ecosystems like Anthropic and OpenAI by offering data residency on U.S. and European infrastructure. To overcome global compute constraints, TogetherAI is executing a sovereign infrastructure strategy that partners with nations facing data center moratoriums, aiming to prevent industrial capture and establish a collaborative commons for future AI development.
- RAISE Summit8 min
Vipul Ved Prakash, Together AI ｜ RAISE Summit 2025
Vipul Ved Prakash, John Furrier, Aviv Paul
Co-founded by Paul Ved Prakash, Together AI operates as an AI acceleration cloud that recently deployed a high-density Grace Blackwell 200 cluster in Memphis to deliver 1.4 petaflops of computing power for large-scale model training. The platform hosts over 200 open-source models and drives significant growth among "AI-native" customers by integrating specialized infrastructure for thermal management and dynamic workload orchestration. As the market shifts toward "Agentech," the company addresses generative AI limitations through test-time compute mechanisms and parameter-efficient inference techniques that enable complex, multi-step reasoning workflows.
- RAISE Summit8 min
Vipul Ved Prakash, Together AI ｜ RAISE Summit 2025 1
Vipul Ved Prakash, John Furrier, Aviv Paul
Together AI, an "AI acceleration cloud" founded three years ago, is deploying specialized supercomputer clusters like the new Memphis Grace Blackwell 200 to facilitate large-scale generative AI training and inference. Serving 80% "AI-native" clients in sectors from robotics to healthcare, the platform distinguishes itself through hardware-software co-optimization that enables real-time reasoning and supports a library of 200 open-source models. As the industry shifts from basic inference to multi-step agent technologies, Together AI aims to bridge the enterprise gap for integrated stacks by dynamically balancing high-density workloads across its unified cloud infrastructure.