Together AI, OpenRouter Host Open Models NYC

This is a useful signal that open models are becoming a deployment and product-selection conversation, not merely a research-community concern.

• –Together AI brings production inference, fine-tuning, and deployment infrastructure for open models
• –OpenRouter offers a unified API for comparing and routing across hundreds of models and providers
• –The discussion should surface practical tradeoffs around quality, cost, latency, licensing, and vendor lock-in
• –Developers evaluating open models will benefit more from adoption lessons than another benchmark-heavy presentation