Together AI recaps AI Conference: 'which open model should I use?' dominated the agenda
togethercompute · x · 2026-10-03
Together AI's team wrapped up two days at the AI Conference, where one question kept recurring: which open model should you actually use? The entire lineup revolved around that theme:
- Director of Field Engineering Rochelle Mattern keynoted on shortlisting and evaluating open models.
- zainhas and parthsareen from Ollama's agents team presented on evaluating open models against production traffic rather than just benchmarks.
- The event also featured 8 deep-dive booth lightning talks and two surprisingly competitive rounds of trivia.
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