IBM and Together AI sign $240M inference deal

IBM and Together AI signed a multi-year $240 million agreement for a large NVIDIA HGX B300 inference cluster on IBM Cloud, with expected availability in Q1 2027. IBM’s newsroom release says Together will use the cluster for open-source model inference and reports that its inference product already serves 400 trillion tokens monthly; the contract is a capacity commitment, not a published unit-cost guarantee. Builders should file the deal as another sign that open models are moving into dedicated, enterprise-scale serving infrastructure, alongside the archive’s analysis of hyperscaler capacity bets.