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Together AI and Pearl Research Labs Team Up to Reduce the Cost of AI Inference

Together AI’s mission is to make AI accessible and widely distributed. Today, we are excited to announce an exclusive partnership with Pearl Research Labs, the creators of the Pearl Network, a blockchain protocol. This protocol uses Proof of Useful Work to harness the computation of inference and training workloads to secure a blockchain and mine a new cryptocurrency that allows offsetting the cost of AI workloads. Pearl’s mathematical breakthrough is to generate the Pearl cryptocurrency by obtaining strong proofs of matrix multiplications that happen in the course of forward and backward passes of training and inference computations. In collaboration with Pearl Research Labs, we're introducing a new inference endpoint for Gemma-4-31B-it-pearl , an instruction-tuned model. This endpoint is discounted by over 25%, offset by the future value of crypto emissions. As the spot price of ¶PRL increases, we expect to use more of the value generated by Pearl emissions to further reduce the price of this endpoint. This is our first product that integrates the Pearl Network. …

Announced

15 May 2026 00:00 UTC