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Together AI welcomes Mahadev Konar as SVP for Infrastructure Engineering

Together AI 10 September 2025, 00:00

Together AI hired Mahadev Konar as Senior Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering. Konar previously served as VP of Infrastructure at Meta, where he led teams responsible for large-scale compute systems. The hire aims to strengthen Together AI's capabilities in building and managing GPU infrastructure for AI workloads.

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Hiring Mahadev Konar further deepens Together AI’s commitment to deliver the most reliable and scalable GPU infrastructure.

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TLDRocket 21 July 2026

The open-weight AI model market hit an inflection point today as Alibaba and Kimi released trillion-parameter competitors that challenge the closed-model orthodoxy—just as Washington moved to restrict them. Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max (2.4 trillion parameters) and Kimi K3 (2.8T) are going open-weight, with K3 ranking first on Frontend Web App Arena and fourth on agentic benchmarks, signaling that scale and transparency can coexist. The timing matters: while U.S. policymakers weigh layered restrictions on Chinese open models, technical experts are pushing back hard, arguing that closed gardens actually hurt security and competition more than they help. The real fragmentation risk isn't technical—it's regulatory.

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