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▶ 56:44 · $TOGETHER-AI · Together AI grew bookings from $100M to $1.2B in a year, raised $800M Series B
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2026-07-02 · 14 company · 10 thematic
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andrew collins
vipul
isaiah taylor

CEO of Valar Atomics, developing high-temperature gas reactors for waterless nuclear power generation targeting AI data centers.

rob taves
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“We've grown uh you know uh from 100 million in bookings to 1.2 million over the last year and we raised $800 million in our TV to expand... open weights models are able to really address the largest workloads of agentic long range uh you k…”
—vipul
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