Vipul Ved Prakash is the founder and CEO of Together AI, a research-driven company building the fastest cloud platform for large-scale AI models. Vipul is a serial entrepreneur who previously founded Cloudmark, an anti-spam and messaging security company that was acquired by Proofpoint. Following the acquisition, he served as a senior engineer at Apple, working on core search and AI technologies. He is a prominent figure in the open-source community and has been building decentralized and distributed systems for over two decades. At Together AI, he is leading the charge in democratizing access to high-performance AI compute, having raised significant capital from Kleiner Perkins and NVIDIA to build the infrastructure that powers the next generation of AI startups.