Event highlighting breakthroughs in AI infrastructure, open source research, and reinforcement learning
san francisco, March 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AI togetherAI Native Cloud, which powers some of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies, today launched AI Native Conf, the first conference dedicated to builders creating next-generation AI applications. The event was held amid rapid business momentum for Together AI. The company currently serves thousands of customers, supports over 1 million developers, and has achieved 10x year-over-year growth in annual contracted revenue (ACR), with 27 customer deals over $1 million and one over $1 billion.
Together AI has emerged as a core infrastructure provider for leading AI native companies such as Cursor, Decagon, and Cartesia, offering production-scale inference, pre-training, and model formation. With an industry-leading systems lab led by the creators of FlashAttend and ThunderKittens, Together AI sits at the intersection of cutting-edge research and real-world deployment.
Vipul Ved Prakash, co-founder and CEO of Together AI, said, “AI is moving faster than any technological change we’ve seen before, and the companies being built today are fundamentally different.” “This event aims to bring together the leading AI-native builders to share what it really takes to run AI at scale in production. Our advantage is simple: The same researchers who publish fundamental research results are the ones who are pushing it into production systems that our customers trust.”
Announcement of new research results and products using AI native cloud
At AI Native Conf, Together AI announced new research-to-operations advances across the kernel, reinforcement learning, and inference optimization, highlighting the company’s deep research bench and rapid pace of development. These advances will help enterprises improve training and inference performance, allowing enterprises of all sizes to take advantage of the benefits of generative and agent AI.
The main announcements are as follows.
- flash attention 4the latest evolution of a widely adopted kernel that powers most major language models currently in production. FlashAttendant 4 delivers up to: 4x performance improvement for long sequence lengthsthe gap between theoretical and real-world performance for long-context workloads such as coding agents and document inference narrows.
- new Reinforcement learning API This separates inference and training, enabling globally distributed reinforcement learning pipelines that were previously only possible in organizations with large co-located GPU clusters.
- thunder agentan open source programmable system for serving and training agent workloads that supports up to 3.6x increase in throughput Memory overhead has been significantly reduced.
- Atlas-2, Adapt and optimize using real-time user data and deliver instantly 1.5x faster inference result.
AI native generation gathering
AI Native Conf was created in response to the rapid emergence of AI native startups. According to McKinsey, generative AI is already used by 70% of companies, making it the fastest-adopted major technology platform in history. As a result, a new class of AI-native companies are scaling at unprecedented speed, many reaching $100 million in ARR faster than any previous generation of startups.
The conference will feature leaders building on the front lines of AI, including Grant Lee, co-founder and CEO of Gamma, and Arjun Desai, co-founder of Cartesia, as well as researchers and engineers deploying AI systems at scale.
For a complete summary of research and product announcements at AI Native Conf, please visit: Today’s post On the Together AI blog.
About Together AI
Together AI is an AI-native cloud that combines cutting-edge open source models, high-performance infrastructure, and cutting-edge research in AI efficiency and scalability. Founded in 2022, Together AI powers over 1 million developers and some of the world’s most demanding AI workloads, delivering production-scale inference, training, and reinforcement learning to the next generation of AI-native enterprises.
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