IBM’s cloud collab, Meta’s Muse Glimmer & OpenAI’s upcoming Astra model

Visit Mixture of Experts podcast page to get more AI content → https://www.ibm.com/think/podcasts/mixture-of-experts This week on Mixture of Experts, our team of panelists talk about big infrastructure changes and small models. IBM is teaming up with Together AI on a multi-year deal to build a massive inference cluster on IBM Cloud, powered by NVIDIA's newest chips. The goal: cheaper, faster access to open-source AI models for enterprises, with the cluster expected to go live in early 2027. Then there's Meta, which just open-sourced Muse Glimmer—a 30B-parameter model small enough to run locall