• March 12, 2025
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Deliver Swift AI Voice Agents with FriendliAI

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Anyone who’s ever called customer service knows the frustration of navigating endless automated menus, being stuck in long queues, and struggling to get to the help you actually need. It’s a universal pain point that businesses are striving to address with AI voice agents—cheaper, faster, and more reliable solutions that replace labor and are available 24/7 to elevate customer experiences.

But AI voice agents are not just transforming customer service. Their applications are rapidly expanding across both B2B and B2C sectors, with new use cases emerging across industries. From streamlining internal operations and boosting employee productivity to driving sales, AI voice agents are becoming a key component of modern business strategies.

A16z B2B voice agents

Figure 1: B2B Voice Agents. Reference: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). [Online] Available: https://a16z.com/ai-voice-agents-2025-update/ [Accessed Mar. 11, 2025].

As AI voice agents become integral to customer interactions across industries, businesses need responsive, powerful, and reliable generative AI inference solutions to stay ahead. But not all AI agents are created equal.

This is where FriendliAI shines. Leveraging cutting-edge technology, FriendliAI delivers superior performance with the lowest Time to First Token (TTFT) and remarkable Time per Output Token (TPOT) compared to other GPU-based providers. This translates into faster response times, better user experiences, and significant cost savings. Additionally, FriendliAI offers businesses the flexibility to deploy highly customizable models, fine-tuned to meet their unique needs and brand identity, ensuring that every interaction is aligned with the brand’s voice and resonates deeply with it.

Key Challenges in AI Voice Agent Services

To improve customer satisfaction, it's essential to address several challenges that impact both the overall customer experience and operational efficiency:

  • Latency Issues: Even a brief delay in AI voice agent responses can disrupt the flow of conversation, leading to user frustration and ultimately, poor customer satisfaction. Customers expect quick and seamless interactions, as if they are talking to actual humans, and even a few seconds of lag can feel like an eternity in the context of a conversation. As a result, businesses face the challenge of ensuring ultra-low latency to maintain smooth, efficient communication that meets the demands of their users.

  • Scalability: As customer demands increase, so too does the need for robust, scalable AI solutions. High call volumes or simultaneous interactions can overwhelm systems that aren't built to handle such loads. This requires significant computational resources, often driving up costs and creating inefficiencies. Businesses are left trying to find the right balance between expanding their AI capabilities and controlling infrastructure costs, making scalability one of the toughest challenges in AI deployment.

How FriendliAI Addresses These Challenges

FriendliAI provides fast, efficient, and reliable generative AI inference solutions, recognized by Artificial Analysis as the fastest GPU-based provider in the industry. The platform empowers businesses to deploy and serve custom AI models with minimal latency and at a reduced cost. By leveraging FriendliAI's technology, companies can employ scalable, customizable AI voice agents.

  • Fastest TTFT for Immediate Interaction: FriendliAI offers the fastest-in-class Time to First Token (TTFT), as verified by third-party benchmark, Artificial Analysis. This ensures instantaneous responses, enhancing customer satisfaction through highly optimized AI inference with ultra-low latency.

  • Streaming with Fast TPOT for Incessant Voice Output: With optimized Time Per Output Token (TPOT) and a continuous streaming mode, FriendliAI facilitates rapid, uninterrupted responses. This results in a smooth, natural conversation flow—even during complex interactions—ensuring real-time, engaging communication without any pauses.

  • Consistent Performance: FriendliAI ensures consistent, reliable performance across all interactions, maintaining low latency and high accuracy even during peak demand. Whether handling a high volume of requests or navigating complex conversations, FriendliAI’s robust infrastructure delivers steady, dependable results, ensuring that your AI voice agents are always ready to provide a seamless and efficient customer experience.

  • Scalable and Cost-Efficient Model Inference: FriendliAI handles all infrastructure management, effortlessly scaling to meet fluctuating demands while keeping costs low. This minimizes the need for costly computational resources, helping companies significantly reduce infrastructure expenses.

  • Flexible Deployment & Custom Model Support: FriendliAI supports a wide range of multimodal AI model architectures, offering complete flexibility for customization to meet your business's specific needs.

By providing superior performance and scalability with consistent real-time responses, FriendliAI ensures your AI voice agent services stay efficient, customizable, and cost-effective—helping you deliver an enhanced customer experience.

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General FAQ

What is FriendliAI?

FriendliAI is a GPU-inference platform that lets you deploy, scale, and monitor large language and multimodal models in production, without owning or managing GPU infrastructure. We offer three things for your AI models: Unmatched speed, cost efficiency, and operational simplicity. Find out which product is the best fit for you in here.

How does FriendliAI help my business?

Our Friendli Inference allows you to squeeze more tokens-per-second out of every GPU. Because you need fewer GPUs to serve the same load, the true metric—tokens per dollar—comes out higher even if the hourly GPU rate looks similar on paper. View pricing

Which models and modalities are supported?

Over 380,000 text, vision, audio, and multi-modal models are deployable out of the box. You can also upload custom models or LoRA adapters. Explore models

Can I deploy models from Hugging Face directly?

Yes. A one-click deploy by selecting “Friendli Endpoints” on the Hugging Face Hub will take you to our model deployment page. The page provides an easy-to-use interface for setting up Friendli Dedicated Endpoints, a managed service for generative AI inference. Learn more about our Hugging Face partnership

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