Together AI, a leader in AI Acceleration Cloud solutions, has announced its acquisition of Refuel.ai, a company specializing in transforming unstructured data into structured, high-quality datasets tailored for AI applications. This strategic acquisition enhances Together AI’s platform by integrating Refuel.ai’s innovative models and orchestration capabilities. As a result, developers and enterprises will be able to build, deploy, and optimize generative AI applications with increased speed and precision.
Refuel.ai, founded in 2021 by Stanford alumni Rishabh Bhargava and Nihit Desai, is renowned for its Refuel-LLM model family, designed for data-intensive tasks, and Refuel Cloud, a platform that supports engineering teams in creating complex, multi-step data workflows. The company’s solutions have been employed in various applications, such as product catalog cleaning, financial document structuring, and chatbot claim verification. Notably, Refuel.ai’s models have demonstrated 50% fewer errors compared to existing state-of-the-art 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 bringing Refuel.ai’s specialized models and orchestration platform into Together’s AI Cloud, we can deliver an unmatched combination of speed, data quality, and scalability—empowering developers to rapidly take more sophisticated AI applications from concept to production.”
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The acquisition significantly enhances Together AI’s offerings by addressing common data processing challenges, allowing for scalable, high-quality data management within its ecosystem. By incorporating Refuel-LLM for serverless inference and LoRA fine-tuning, Together AI empowers customers to build increasingly complex AI agents, supporting every stage of the AI application lifecycle—from data preparation to deployment and continuous improvement.
Additionally, Refuel LLM-2 is now available on Together AI’s platform, offering serverless inference and LoRA fine-tuning to support high-accuracy data workflows starting today.
“At Together AI, we provide a platform that 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 developers and enterprises build increasingly complex applications and agents, leveraging their data effectively and driving higher quality will become a core capability for our platform. This is an important milestone for making generative AI more accessible to our community and our enterprise customers.”