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. Eventually, we plan to expand our Pearl powered product portfolio, and offer ways for our customers to directly obtain a portion of the currency emissions.
Pearl changes the unit economics of AI, by allowing every GPU cycle powering AI training and inference to simultaneously produce a native proof-of-work digital asset—the ¶PRL coin—at no additional cost. As such, Pearl’s breakthrough technology increases the economic throughput of GPUs and decreases LLM price-per-token.
Pearl Research Labs is excited to partner with Together AI and its world-class research and inference engineering teams to deliver the first inference endpoint that is discounted on account of the Pearl coins being generate in parallel to inference tokens.
– Omri Weinstein, Co-founder and CEO, Pearl Research Labs
Learn more about the protocol at Pearl Research Labs and try out our first Pearl endpoint at www.together.ai/models/gemma-4-31b-it-pearl!