[Monty2026: The Next Big Thing: Private Company Highlights]

Vipul Ved Prakash (Co-Founder & CEO, Together.ai) in conversation with Sumant Mandal (Co-Founder & Managing Partner, March Capital)

Prakash, a former Apple engineer who worked on Face ID and Siri, argues that generative AI represents a new computational substrate, not just an advancement in language processing. He positions Together.ai as the cloud layer for the emerging AI workload era, running the top open-source models across modalities on Grace Blackwell rack-scale systems.

The conversation frames inference efficiency at scale as the defining competitive moat of the AI era, comparable to what AWS did for general-purpose cloud compute, with Together.ai serving both frontier labs and enterprises adapting models to proprietary data.