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Exclusive: FriendliAI Raises $20M Seed Extension To Grow AI Inference Platform
FriendliAI, an AI inference platform startup, has raised $20 million in a seed extension round, the company told Crunchbase News exclusively. For the unacquainted, AI inference is ...
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LG AI Research partners
LG AI Research and generative artificial intelligence infrastructure company FriendliAI Inc. today announced a strategic partnership to make LG’s new AI model EXAONE 4.0 publicly a...
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FriendliAI and Hugging Face Form Strategic Partnership for Seamless Model Deployment
With this partnership, users can deploy popular open-source models directly from the Hugging Face Hub to Friendli Endpoints, benefiting from fast and cost-efficient inference.
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Meet FriendliAi at the AI Expo during ODSC West 2024! 🚀
Visit our booth to discover how we’re revolutionizing AI with cutting-edge solutions for AI agents, fine-tuning, and inference. Also, don’t miss our talk: "Accelerate AI Agents wit...
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Come meet FriendliAI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 in San Francisco on October 28th!
Visit our booth to discover how we’re revolutionizing AI with cutting-edge solutions for AI agents, fine-tuning, and inference.
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Excited to announce that FriendliAI will be at HackNight!
FriendliAI will present a Lightning Talk and QuickStart Challenge where you can build your own AI agent using our Serverless Endpoints.
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Meet FriendliAI at SF Tech Week 2024!
We’re thrilled to collaborate with industry-leading AI companies like TECH WEEK by a16z, Weaviate, Dify, APARAVI and Wordware (YC S24).
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FriendliAI has integrated with Weaviate!
FriendliAI has partnered with Weaviate, the open-source vector database renowned for its robustness, speed, and scalability.
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Join FriendliAI at Chatbot & AI Conference at September 24, 2024 in San Francisco!
Join us to discover how FriendliAI Inference revolutionizes LLM chatbot operations.
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FriendliAI will be at Weights & Biases' Fully Connected Tokyo: The Era of Generative AI on October 10th!
Join us to discover how to effortlessly deploy and fine-tune LLMs with FriendliAI’s integration with Weights & Biases through a talk by our CEO, Byung-Gon Chun.
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Join FriendliAI at The AI Conference on September 10-11!
Meet us at the booth #3 to discover more about FriendliAI's cutting-edge solutions. With FriendliAI, achieve your generative AI potential. Deploy custom LLMs or AI agents at blazin...
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Join FriendliAI for the Pre-AI Conference Hack Day!
FriendliAI is teaming up with Weaviate to host an exciting Hack Day to start The AI Conference week in San Francisco on September 9th, from 10 AM to 7 PM PST.
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FriendliAI is excited to partner with MongoDB to streamline the deployment of RAG pipelines!
This integration lets you easily deploy fast, cost-effective RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) and compound AI applications.
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Friendli Dedicated Endpoints serves Upstage's Solar translation LLMs
FriendliAI and Upstage are working together to deliver the best translation service. Friendli Dedicated Endpoints serves Upstage’s Solar translation LLMs, automating inference oper...
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FriendliAI integrates with Weights & Biases to streamline Generative AI deployment workflows
Today, FriendliAI, the leading generative AI infrastructure company, announced an integration with Weights & Biases, the leading AI developer platform, to accelerate the developmen...
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Join FriendliAI at the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco
Join us at the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco from June 25-27! Find out how FriendliAI can accelerate the building and serving your generative AI models with our highly ...
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Meet FriendliAI at STK 2024
Visit booth A243 in Hall A to see how Friendli is revolutionizing LLMs/LMMs and supercharging your operations to build and serve generative AI effectively.
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FriendliAI LLM Hackathon concludes with innovative projects
Last Saturday, the Seoul National University campus was buzzing with excitement as the FriendliAI LLM hackathon came to a thrilling conclusion. The event showcased the creativity a...
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Meet FriendliAI at Databricks Data+AI Summit
Join us at the Data+AI Summit by Databricks in San Francisco from June 10-13. We showcase how Friendli can accelerate the development and deployment of your generative AI models wi...
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Meet FriendliAI at SuperAI Conference in Singapore
At our booth, K01, on the 4th Floor, we'll showcase how Friendli is revolutionizing the landscape of LLMs / LMMs, empowering you to supercharge your operations to build and serve g...
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FriendliAI will be part of Beyond Asia Tech Summit 2024
This summit bridges Asian and Silicon Valley tech communities to discuss the latest in AI. FriendliAI is perfect for the venue, given its operations in Silicon Valley and Seoul. By...
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FriendliAI presents session on 'FriendliAI's Journey to Build Global Generative AI Infrastructure' at the AWS Summit Seoul
As an Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner, Gyeong-In Yu, CTO of FriendliAI, showcases how FriendliAI + AWS enable powerful, efficient, and cost-effective generative AI solutions.
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FriendliAI was invited by Meta to attend the Global Llama Community Summit at Meta's headquarters
Byung-Gon Chun, CEO of FriendliAI, presented “Supercharge LLM inference serving with Friendli” to share how FriendliAI helps organizations innovate using Llama models and Friendli....
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FriendliAI joins AWS partner network
We are excited to announce that FriendliAI, a leading LLM serving platform, has been officially recognized as an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner. This milestone ensures our commi...
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FriendliAI introduces Friendli Dedicated Endpoints, a managed service version of Friendli Container to increase accessibility
FriendliAI, a frontrunner in inference serving for generative AI, is thrilled to announce Friendli Dedicated Endpoints, which offers the capabilities of Friendli Container as a man...
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Meet FriendliAI at NVIDIA GTC 2024
At NVIDIA GTC 2024, FriendliAI will demonstrate its proprietary Friendli Inference. This engine can achieve cost savings of up to several tens of times compared to conventional met...
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FriendliAI met with Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg at the Developers Roundtable
On Feb 28, our CEO Byung-Gon Chun and CTO Gyeong-In Yu met with Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg at the Developers Roundtable held at Meta's office in South Korea. FriendliAI was among...
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FriendliAI has been selected for the 2024 Emerging AI+X Top 100 companies
FriendliAI has been selected for the 2024 Emerging AI+X Top 100 companies. The Artificial Intelligence Industry Association (AIIA) has chosen 100 companies expected to lead future ...
FriendliAI unveils Serverless Endpoints for widespread, affordable access to open-source generative AI models
FriendliAI, a leader in inference serving for generative AI, announced the launch of Friendli Serverless Endpoints today for accessible development with generative AI models. This ...
Read the full storyFriendli Inference accelerates large language model inference serving
FriendliAI, a leading generative AI serving engine company, has released a new version of their inference serving engine Friendli. This new release dramatically improves serving pe...
Read the full storyMeet FriendliAI at AWS reInvent 2023
In AWS reInvent 2023, we will present how companies automate and save costs in serving their LLMs with Friendli Inference! (Demonstration of the performance: significantly faster t...
Read the full storyFriendliAI joins the SC23
We are thrilled to announce our participation in the SC23 Exhibits in Denver! Join us at SC23 Booth 901 (right next to AWS) from November 14-16 to discover how you can supercharge ...
FriendliAI has been named to KOREA AI STARTUP 100 for the second consecutive year.
FriendliAI, a generative AI engine company, was selected as an outstanding AI startup in the AI platform category at the 2023 KOREA AI STARTUP 100 event held in Seoul on October 27...
Read the full storyFriendliAI launches public beta of Friendli Dedicated Endpoints
FriendliAI, a leading generative AI engine company, is proud to announce the public beta release of Friendli Dedicated Endpoints (formerly known as PeriFlow Cloud). This powerful p...
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FriendliAI joined the K-AI alliance as a member
FriendliAI joined the K-AI alliance as a member. We look forward to collaborating with the alliance members in the generative AI space.
Read the full storyFriendliAI CEO to attend Korea-US Business Alliance Event
FriendliAI has been selected as a representative for the Korea-US Business Alliance event on the state visit to the US. The event is hosting the largest representative group ever, ...
Read the full storyFriendliAI's work on large-scale LM training got accepted into ICML 2023
Our work on large-scale LM training got accepted into ICML 2023! We pushed the boundary of large-scale LM training and achieved the state-of-the-art performance on training large-s...
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Making generative AI training simple and cost-efficient with Friendli Suite and Azure
Two years ago, I founded FriendliAI to provide startups with easy access to innovative Generative AI. We first helped realize this mission by introducing Friendli Suite – a solutio...
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FriendliAI is now part of Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub
FriendliAI is now part of Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub! We're getting a $150K Azure credit for scaling up our product!
FriendliAI has been selected for the 2022 KOREA AI STARTUP 100
We're happy to announce that FriendliAI has been selected for the 2022 KOREA AI STARTUP 100. Hosted by AI ONE TEAM & The Korea Economic Daily, KOREA AI STARTUP is an initiative tha...
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FriendliAI Announces new system to hike up the serving efficiency of large-scale AI models at OSDI 2022
Orca is a serving system that enables the efficient operation of large-scale AI models. It can remove the inefficient delays of existing serving systems by using two core technique...
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