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we actually talked to them a few weeks ago - they're actually almost 50% a research lab! https://latent.space/p/together https://latent.space/p/together i thi
by swyx 3y ago
we actually talked to them a few weeks ago - they're actually almost 50% a research lab!
https://latent.space/p/together https://latent.space/p/together
i think it makes total sense - infra will commoditize rapidly so you have to make research bets on future differentiators. Together is basically the only GPU infra company with a successful research dept (am I missing someone? i probably am) that is likely to pay off turning it into a frontier model lab at some point in future.
- a_bonobo 3y agoThey also recently were involved in Evo, genome-scale modeling of DNA: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.27.582234v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.27.582234v1 The second author works at together.ai and the huggingfaces space from together.ai hosts the model https://huggingface.co/togethercomputer/evo-1-131k-base https://huggingface.co/togethercomputer/evo-1-131k-base