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AI infrastructure engineers wanting a solution to manage AI models across various workloads
About FriendliAI
FriendliAI is a generative AI infrastructure platform that offers fast, efficient, and reliable inference solutions for production environments. It provides a suite of tools and services designed to optimize the deployment and serving of large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI workloads at scale. Key offerings include Friendli Endpoints, which allow users to build and serve custom generative AI models, saving GPU costs and accelerating AI inference. It supports seamless integration with popular open source models from the Hugging Face Hub, enabling lightning-fast, high-performance inference. FriendliAI's cutting-edge technologies, such as Iteration Batching, Friendli DNN Library, Friendli TCache, and Native Quantization, contribute to significant cost savings (50–90%), reduced GPU requirements (6× fewer GPUs), higher throughput (10.7×), and lower latency (6.2×).
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$5.9 per hour
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FriendliAI
Founded: 2021
United States
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