Together AI Acquires Refuel.ai to Boost Development of Production-Ready AI Applications

Together AI Acquires Refuel.ai to Speed Up Production-Grade AI Application Development

San Francisco, May 15, 2025 – Together AI, known for its AI Acceleration Cloud, announced it has acquired Refuel.ai, a company specializing in converting unstructured data into high-quality, structured datasets for AI applications. This acquisition enhances Together AI’s platform by integrating Refuel's specialized models and orchestration tools, helping developers and enterprises build, deploy, and optimize generative AI applications more efficiently and accurately.

What Refuel.ai Brings to the Table

Founded in 2021 by Stanford alumni Rishabh Bhargava and Nihit Desai, Refuel.ai developed Refuel-LLM, a set of models focused on data-centric tasks, along with Refuel Cloud—a platform for engineering teams to create complex, multi-step data workflows. Their technology already supports various use cases such as product catalog cleaning, structuring financial documents, and chatbot claim verification, achieving 50% fewer errors compared to existing models.

"Joining Together AI accelerates our mission to solve the data bottleneck that every AI team faces today," said Refuel.ai CEO Rishabh Bhargava. "By integrating Refuel.ai’s models and orchestration platform into Together’s AI Cloud, we can offer a unique combination of speed, data quality, and scalability, enabling developers to bring sophisticated AI applications from concept to production faster."

Benefits for Developers and Enterprises

This acquisition removes common data processing bottlenecks within the Together AI ecosystem, enabling scalable, high-quality data workflows. It also expands Together AI’s features by adding Refuel-LLM for serverless inference and LoRA fine-tuning. Customers building complex AI agents will find Refuel.ai's tools valuable throughout the AI application lifecycle—from data preparation to deployment and iteration.

Starting today, Refuel LLM-2 is available on Together AI’s platform, providing serverless inference and LoRA fine-tuning capabilities that support high-accuracy data workflows.

Together AI’s Vision

"Our platform empowers developers and businesses to manage the entire generative AI lifecycle with unmatched performance, control, and cost-efficiency," said Together AI CEO Vipul Ved Prakash. "As AI applications grow in complexity, the ability to effectively use data and improve quality becomes essential. This acquisition marks a key step in making generative AI more accessible to our community and enterprise customers."

Platform Reach and Next Steps

• Together AI supports over 200 top open-source and custom models across various modalities.
• It serves more than 600,000 AI developers and organizations including Salesforce, Zoom, SK Telecom, DuckDuckGo, Cognition, Zomato, and The Washington Post.
• Developers interested in fine-tuning and running leading open source models can visit together.ai.

About Together AI

Together AI is an AI Acceleration Cloud that enables developers and enterprises to train, fine-tune, and run inference for generative AI models with high performance, control, and cost-efficiency. Their platform supports a wide range of open source and custom models across multiple modalities, offering flexible deployment with strong privacy and security measures. Committed to open collaboration and innovation, Together AI works to keep advanced AI systems accessible and adaptable, delivering practical outcomes for society.