Niki Birkner

Founding PM at Together AI, working on inference and growth. Co-founder of Babel, a community for people building AI in San Francisco.

while (curious) { learn(); build(); share(); } // 2976 times since 2025

while (curious) { learn(); build(); share(); } // 2976 times since 2025

commits + posts

2025

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Includes private and work commits at Together AI. Those stay unnamed.

AI News

A Mon/Wed/Fri briefing.

Projects

gpu-watch — GPU price tracker over public cloud prices. Currently an internal Together dashboard for the StratFin team.TypeScript~9.1k locprivate

babel — A members site for the San Francisco community of AI founders, engineers, and researchers I co-founded with Abhay and Hari. I built the site with Abhay.HTML240 locprivate

ai-news-bot — A GitHub Actions bot that watches AI and tech newsletters and posts breaking news and a daily digest to Slack.Python10.6k loc

sf-met-gala — A single-page site for a friends-organized Met Gala-style evening in San Francisco, co-created with Jared.HTML1.2k loc

gcu-website — A Spanish-language site for GCU, a condominium manager in Costa Rica.HTML970 loc

tarot-ai — A tarot app that draws a three-card spread and reads it with Together AI.TypeScript6.1k loc

lines across 6 repos

$ npm run fetch
→ scraping 14 providers: aws, gcp, coreweave, lambda, nebius, runpod…
✓ wrote price snapshot
$

Now

Leading product growth at Together AI. Building this site. Reading Inference Engineering by Baseten and James by Percival Everett.

Elsewhere

Email ↗GitHub ↗LinkedIn ↗X ↗

Fun

2048, Linkup (Connections), Six Tries (Wordle), Tiny (Mini Crossword), Snake, Sweep (Minesweeper), Higher or Lower, and Rungs (Krillion).

Writing

Advice for lifeOct 21 Advice for workOct 21