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AIDigest/2026/07/13/2026-07-13-06-together-ai-800m-series-c

Source: Business Wire — Together AI — 2026-07-01

Summary

Together AI closed an $800M Series C led by Aramco Ventures at an $8.3B post-money valuation, reporting annualized bookings above $1.15B and tripled open-weight model usage over the past year.

Key Takeaways

  • Round backers include NVIDIA, Vista Equity Partners, General Catalyst, Emergence Capital, Salesforce Ventures, and SentinelOne's S Ventures, among others.
  • The company claims customers cut enterprise inference costs by up to 60x versus closed-model alternatives on its platform.
  • Plans to scale infrastructure capacity roughly 50x over the next five years.
  • Together AI serves open models including DeepSeek, Nemotron, MiniMax, and Kimi — direct evidence of enterprise dollars continuing to shift toward open-weight inference infrastructure.

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