Niki Birkner

Senior Product Manager at Together AI leading inference API and monetization

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San Francisco, California

Joined August 2025

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Summary

Niki Birkner is a seasoned Product Manager with expertise in AI, specifically in developing and monetizing LLM-based applications. At Together AI, she leads inference API and monetization strategies, contributing to cutting-edge developments in generative AI hardware and software. deeplearning+3

She demonstrates a strong commitment to sharing knowledge and fostering skill development in the AI product space. This is evident through her role as a co-instructor for a DeepLearning.AI course on building AI-powered games and her Medium articles offering guidance on product management interviews. deeplearning+1

Niki has a background in entrepreneurship, having founded Fresquiticos and being recognized as a student entrepreneur by the WBENC. Her education in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University provides a strong foundation for her career in technology and product development. lionessmagazine

Work

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A practitioner's guide to testing and running large GPU clusters for training generative AI models

August 1, 2024

Co-authored an article outlining the acceptance testing process developed at Together AI for ensuring the reliability and performance of GPU clusters used in training generative AI models.