Together AI has raised $102.5M in a Series A financing to build a comprehensive cloud platform for open source AI models, with lead investors including Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA, and Emergence Capital. The new capital will accelerate the development of the fastest cloud platform for generative AI applications, allowing developers to easily integrate leading open source models or create their own models through pre-training or fine-tuning. With a focus on core research, Together AI publishes novel research under open-source licenses that benefit the AI ecosystem, and has released several notable datasets and products, including RedPajama-V2, which is widely adopted by AI researchers and developers. The company aims to create a platform technology that provides choice and options for the AI ecosystem, enabling any researcher or developer to participate in shaping its future.