Vipul Ved Prakash is Co-Founder and CEO of Together AI, a cloud platform for open-source generative AI that serves over 450,000 developers and enterprises including Salesforce, Zoom, and The Washington Post. He is a serial entrepreneur who previously founded Cloudmark and Topsy, which was acquired by Apple for over $200 million in 2013.

Vipul studied Computer Science at St. Stephen's College in Delhi and was named to MIT Technology Review's Top 100 Innovators list in 2003 at age 25 for creating Vipul's Razor, an influential anti-spam system. He served as Director of Engineering at Apple following the Topsy acquisition, leading search technology for Spotlight and Siri.

Vipul is a self-described cypherpunk with deep expertise in distributed systems, search technology, and artificial intelligence. He was a competitive table tennis player in India, winning the junior state championship at age 13.

Together AI raised a $305 million Series B in February 2025 led by General Catalyst, reaching a $3.3 billion valuation with backing from NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins. The company achieved a 200% increase in platform usage and is deploying 36,000 NVIDIA GB200 GPUs.

Together AI delivers the fastest DeepSeek and Llama inference at production scale, with revenue growing 233% from $15 million in 2023 to $50 million in 2024. The platform has been recognized on Forbes AI 50 list and CB Insights AI 100, ranking as a top AI infrastructure provider.