IBM has announced a multi-year, $240M agreement with Together AI to deploy a dedicated NVIDIA HGX B300 inference...
IBM has announced a multi-year, $240M agreement with Together AI to deploy a dedicated NVIDIA HGX B300 inference cluster on IBM Cloud, with availability expected in Q1 2027 (HPCwire, StorageReview).
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Strong evidence: 5 independent source classes support this read.
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IBM has announced a multi-year, $240M agreement with Together AI to deploy a dedicated NVIDIA HGX B300 inference cluster on IBM Cloud, with availability expected in Q1 2027 (HPCwire, StorageReview). This marks IBM Cloud's first dedicated large-scale inference cluster built on HGX B300 systems, using NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking. Together AI will use the cluster to deliver open-source model inference, and reports it already serves 400 trillion tokens monthly. The deal follows Together AI's $800M Series C at an $8.3B valuation, indicating strong demand for AI infrastructure. For IBM, this represents a significant expansion of its AI cloud portfolio and a concrete revenue commitment, reinforcing its partnership with NVIDIA and positioning IBM to capture enterprise inference workloads. The companies emphasize the cluster is 'built to deliver 30x more AI factory output compared to prior generations,' though actual workload performance will vary. This agreement suggests growing demand for enterprise-grade inference infrastructure and validates IBM's hybrid-cloud AI strategy. It also signals NVIDIA's continued push to embed its GPUs in major cloud providers' AI factories.
What the sources said:
- HPCwire: "IBM is positioned to deploy a large cluster of NVIDIA HGX B300 systems on IBM Cloud with expected availability in Q1 2027."
- StorageReview: "The deployment is positioned as IBM Cloud’s first dedicated large-scale inference cluster built around NVIDIA HGX B300 systems..."
- HPCwire: "Together AI selected IBM with NVIDIA because of their innovative product roadmaps and their ability to deliver GPU capacity at the pace required for rapid AI scaling and lowest token cost."
- StorageReview: "Together AI’s inference platform now serves 400 trillion tokens monthly."
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“Off the Wire Press Releases First large-scale inference cluster with Together AI on IBM Cloud using NVIDIA HGX B300 systems to help enterprises run AI workloads, designed for fast and efficient production ARMONK, N.Y. and SAN...”
“IBM has announced a multi-year, $240 million agreement with Together AI to deploy a dedicated NVIDIA HGX B300-based AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud. Together AI plans to use the environment to deliver inference services for...”
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