FriendliAI

FriendliAI is an AI inference cloud platform designed to deploy and scale open-weight and custom AI models with high efficiency. It combines model-level optimizations—such as custom GPU kernels, continuous batching, speculative decoding, and parallel inference—with infrastructure-level capabilities including advanced caching and multi-cloud scaling. The platform delivers over 2× faster inference, 99.99% uptime SLAs, and enterprise-grade fault tolerance. Users can instantly deploy any of 550,000+ Hugging Face models with a single click, or bring their own fine-tuned or proprietary models. FriendliAI supports both serverless and dedicated endpoints, and is SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant. It is used by teams at companies like LG AI Research, SK Telecom, and Upstage to achieve reliable, low-latency inference at scale.

Key Benefits

• 2×+ faster inference
• 99.99% uptime SLA
• One-click deployment of Hugging Face models
• Custom GPU kernel optimizations