Together AI and Y Combinator partner to launch the first dedicated GPU cluster for the YC community

Deveaux Barron, Ankit Gupta, Ellie O'Neil

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Today, Together AI and Y Combinator (YC) are announcing a partnership to deliver the first dedicated YC GPU cluster, giving YC's portfolio of AI-native startups easier access to the compute they need to build and scale.

Compute has become the biggest bottleneck

Breakthroughs in AI have led to a new generation of companies building AI applications, and a key input to building any of these apps is access to compute. More and more startups struggle to get this access in a timely, cost-effective way.

It used to be simple. A startup could spin up GPU instances on demand and scale from there. Today, as model quality and token value keep rising, just securing capacity is one of the hardest problems a young company faces, let alone getting good pricing on it.

For many startups, the upfront cost to secure two years of compute exceeds their entire cash balance, forcing a choice: Raise a round just to fund a compute contract, or go without the capacity to compete.

Together AI and Y Combinator have partnered to solve that specific problem. Together AI has built a dedicated cluster and developer experience just for YC Portfolio companies to quickly and cost-effectively get access to compute for their AI needs across inference and training. Instead of long-term commitments, startups can spin up GPUs for short-term sprints while benefiting from long-term rates.

The cluster supports the full range of needs across YC's portfolio, from teams requiring single-node compute to companies scaling up as their needs grow. Additionally, YC start up founders benefit from the learnings and best practices that Together researchers, engineers, and customer experience teams bring from working with leading AI-native companies.