{"id":1596,"date":"2023-11-30T09:18:11","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T01:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2023-11-30T09:18:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T01:18:11","slug":"%e5%bc%80%e6%ba%90%e7%94%9f%e6%88%90%e5%bc%8fai%e5%88%9d%e5%88%9b%e5%b9%b3%e5%8f%b0together-ai%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%847-3%e4%ba%bf%e5%85%83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/1596.html","title":{"rendered":"Open source generative AI startup together.ai raises 730 million yuan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Together AI, a startup platform focusing on generative artificial intelligence (AIGC), announced that it has raised a total of 300 million shares in its Series A round.Financing<\/a>The company received RMB 730 million in investment, led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and followed by NVIDIA and other companies.<\/p>\n

Together AI highlightsOpen Source<\/a>In order to highlight the importance of large models, we have released a number of highly acclaimed open source products, including the ChatGPT-like model RedPajama-INCITE, the 30 trillion training dataset RedPajama-Data-v2, and the large language model training and reasoning accelerator FlashAttention v2.<\/p>\n

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Source Note: The image is generated by AI, and the image is authorized by Midjourney<\/p>\n

In addition to financing and open source products, Together AI also cooperates with partners such as NVIDIA, Crusoe Cloud, and Vultr to operate cloud computing centers in Europe and the United States.Generative AI<\/a>The startup provides services such as inference and training, and Pika Labs, a cultural video platform, is a loyal user.<\/p>\n

Together AI, a generative AI startup platform founded in 2022, recently announced that it has successfully raised RMB 730 million in its Series A financing. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led the investment, and many well-known institutions including NVIDIA, Emergence Capital, NEA, Prosperity7, and Greycroft followed suit. In just over a year since its establishment, the company has grown rapidly and received US$20 million in seed round financing on May 15 this year.<\/p>\n

The platform actively advocates the concept of open source in terms of products, emphasizing that open source is crucial to the future of large models. As early as early May this year, Together AI released the ChatGPT-like open source model RedPajama-INCITE, which has 3 billion and 7 billion parameters, suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises and individual developers. At the same time, the company also open-sourced the massive 30 trillion training data set RedPajama-Data-v2, which contains 100 billion text documents and supports multiple languages.<\/p>\n

3 billion parameters open source address: https:\/\/huggingface.co\/together<\/a>computer\/RedPajama-INCITE-Base-3B-v1<\/p>\n

7 billion parameters open source address: https:\/\/huggingface.co\/togethercomputer\/RedPajama-INCITE-Chat-7B-v0.1<\/p>\n

In terms of technological innovation, Dr. Tri Dao, chief scientist of Together AI, released FlashAttention v2 on July 17 this year. This is a large language model training and inference accelerator that has been widely used by well-known technology companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, achieving a 4x improvement in training and fine-tuning efficiency.<\/p>\n

In order to support generative AI startups, Together AI has cooperated with NVIDIA, Crusoe Cloud, Vultr, etc. to operate cloud computing centers in Europe and the United States to provide companies with inference, training and other services. Among them, Pika Labs, a live video platform, is one of its partners and has just received $55 million in financing.<\/p>\n

Together AI has achieved remarkable results in financing, open source products and ecological cooperation, injecting new vitality into the development of the generative AI field.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Together AI, a startup platform focusing on the field of generative artificial intelligence (AIGC), announced that it has secured RMB 730 million in a Series A round of funding, led by Capgemini and followed by a number of companies, including NVIDIA. Emphasizing the importance of open source in the big model space, Together AI has released several highly acclaimed open source products, including RedPajama-INCITE, a ChatGPT-like model, RedPajama-Data-v2, a 30 trillion training dataset, and FlashAttention v2, a gas pedal for training and reasoning about big language models. image source Note: Image generated by AI, image license provider Midjourney In addition to funding and open-sourcing products, Together AI<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[509,219,383,421],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-together","tag-219","tag-ai","tag-421"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}