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Together AI, a four-year-old San Francisco startup that provides computing infrastructure for companies to train and run open-source AI models at scale, raised an $800 million round at an $8.3 billion post-money valuation. The deal was led by Aramco Ventures, with Vista Equity Partners, General Catalyst, Emergence Capital, Nvidia, March Capital, Pegatron, and S Ventures also investing.
Heejin Jeong in SF (Stealth)
Role: Principal AI PM @ Together AI (1.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Member @ SPC, Senior ML Engineer @ Waymo, Research Scientist @ Amazon Robotics, UPenn PhD EE
Description: Stealth since 6/25
Kezhen Chen in SF (Co-Founder & CEO @ Analogy AI)
Role: Staff Research Scientist @ Together AI (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Research Scientist @ Meta, AI Research Scientist @ X The moonshot factory, Research Engineer @ Microsoft, Northwestern PhD CS
Description: "A data agent for self-evolving AI"
Contact: Site
Bryan Gopal in SF (Stealth)
Role: Staff Research Scientist @ Together AI (1.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Research Scientist @ Stanford SAIL, SWE Intern @ Meta, Stanford MS CS
Description: "Accelerating inference"
Dhruva Bansal in SF (Co-Founder & CEO @ FlowGen Labs)
Role: ML Engineer @ Together AI (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Founding ML Engineer @ Refuel (acq by Together AI; backed by General Catalyst), Research Engineer @ Google DeepMind, SDE @ Amazon Robotics, Stanford MS CS
Description: "Building frontier intelligence that executes"
Contact: [email protected], Site
Zhang Jiejing in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: Principal Engineer @ Together AI (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Senior Technical Expert @ Alibaba, Senior SWE @ NVIDIA, Senior SWE @ Freescale Semiconductor
Description: Left Together AI 4/26
Contact: Site
Michael Zhang in SF (Potential Founder)
Role: AI Consulting @ Together AI (1 yr)
Other Experience: Founding Team @ Periodic Labs ($300M seed at $1B from a16z, Nvidia, Accel, DST), Stanford PhD CS, Harvard BA Statistics + CS
Description: “new stuff, tasty agents”
Contact: [email protected], Site, Twitter, GitHub
Charles Srisuwananukorn in SF (Co-Founder @ Jaccard AI)
Role: Founding VP of Engineering @ Together AI (3.5 yrs)
Other Experience: Head of Applied ML @ Snorkel AI, Senior SWE Manager @ Apple, SDE @ Microsoft, Stanford BS CS
Description: Stealth since 2/26
Krithik Ramesh in Boston (Potential Founder)
Role: ML Research Scientist Intern @ Together AI (<1 yr)
Other Experience: Undergraduate Researcher @ Broad Institute (Sabeti Lab), Research Fellow @ Fondazione Bruno Kessler, MIT AI + Decision Making
Description: MIT undergrad
