As frontier AI systems have improved in capabilities to work as autonomous agentic systems, token costs have risen proportionally. Larger enterprises are absorbing these costs today, but SMBs that stand to gain the most from automation and intelligence too often watched from the sidelines.
We’re partnering to change that.
Today at Beyond, Pax8 is proud to announce a partnership with Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, to put advanced, enterprise-grade AI within reach of the small and mid-sized businesses our partner ecosystem serves every day.
“Together AI exists to make intelligence abundant; open, accessible and continuously improving. That mission and ours are the same. Together, we’re giving our partners something the channel has never had before.”
— Scott Chasin, Pax8 CEO
Who is Together AI
Together AI is a full-stack infrastructure and inference platform that lets companies build, train and run powerful AI models faster, at lower cost and with more control. Its mission is to make intelligence abundant by keeping advanced AI open and broadly accessible rather than concentrated in the hands of a few companies. That vision aligns closely with how Pax8 thinks about supporting our partner ecosystem in service to small businesses globally.
Together AI’s growth and adoption reflect that vision. Together AI’s platform has experienced 10x year-over-year growth, has over 1M+ developers and is the foundational platform from leading AI-native companies like Cursor, Decagon and Cartesia. Its research lab is led by the creators of some of the most popular open-source technologies, such as FlashAttention and ThunderKittens, and the company has raised more than $500M from Nvidia, Kleiner Perkins and others. Their technical leadership and broad adoption have established it as an essential platform in the AI ecosystem.
Why This Partnership, Why Now
Together AI operates as an infrastructure layer for AI, much like the cloud platforms that reshaped how businesses build and deploy software. Rather than requiring every organization to stand up its own costly AI infrastructure, Together AI offers scalable access to over 200 including industry leading models all on-demand, with a strong focus on cost efficiency and open-source innovation.
That focus matters more every day. As AI usage grows, costs are rising, especially with closed models. For many companies, those costs are becoming harder to justify. Open-source models are now competitive in many use cases, and Together AI gives organizations a way to run at scale, maintain control, and lower costs — without rebuilding systems.
The logic is simple: when only a handful of companies can afford frontier AI infrastructure, innovation slows. When that infrastructure becomes faster, cheaper, and more open, more companies can build transformative products.
Together AI makes enterprise-grade models accessible. Pax8 makes them usable and sellable across the channel. That combination is something partners haven’t had before.
What Our Partnership Means for the Pax8 Community
This partnership is built around a simple idea: democratizing access to AI. For Pax8 partners, that translates into real, near-term use cases their customers are already asking about:
- Coding agents that accelerate development and reduce engineering overhead
- Voice applications that power smarter customer interactions
- Document processing that automates the manual, time-consuming work that bogs down small teams
These are not far-off possibilities. They’re the kinds of solutions partners can build and deliver when the underlying AI is both powerful and economical.
A Shared Vision for the Future of AI for MSPs
Open-source AI is not a substitute for proprietary models. It is a necessary complement. The future belongs to partners and businesses that can weigh cost against performance and choose the right tool for each job. By combining Together AI’s infrastructure with Pax8’s Marketplace and partner enablement model, we’re giving the channel the flexibility to make those choices on their customers’ behalf.
Together AI’s edge here is structural. Its research and infrastructure teams operate as one unit, so breakthroughs in kernels, scheduling and optimization move into production in weeks rather than years. The continuous improvement in performance while lowering costs is exactly what makes advanced AI more viable for the small and mid-sized market.
“AI innovation will come from millions of businesses putting AI to work every day. Together AI and Pax8 are combining forces to make that future possible by lowering costs, expanding access, and giving organizations the freedom to build with the best open models available.”
— Vipul Ved Prakash, Together AI CEO
This Is Just The Beginning
The shift to AI-driven services is underway, and the partners who move now will lead the managed intelligence era. What we’re announcing at Beyond is the start of a relationship we expect to deepen over time. As the partnership evolves, we’ll share more about how partners can engage, what solutions will be available, and how to bring these capabilities to their customers.
For now, one thing is clear: the gap between enterprise AI and small business reality is closing, and Pax8 and Together AI intend to close it together.
Stay tuned for more from Beyond.
