Articles from FriendliAI

FriendliAI Expands to San Francisco to Scale Frontier AI Inference for Open-Weight and Custom Models
FriendliAI, The Frontier AI Inference Cloud, today announced the opening of its new San Francisco office at 20 Hawthorne Street, occupying 7,000 square feet in the historic Crown Point Press building, around the corner from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The expansion places FriendliAI at the heart of the Bay Area AI ecosystem and closer to the customers, partners, and developers building the next generation of AI applications.
By FriendliAI · Via Business Wire · May 11, 2026
FriendliAI and Samsung Cloud Platform Forge Strategic Alliance to Power Frontier Model AI Inference on NVIDIA B300 GPUs
FriendliAI, The Frontier AI Inference Cloud, is collaborating with Samsung SDS, a leading GPU infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider in South Korea, to deliver frontier model AI inference services to global startups and enterprises. The initiative brings together FriendliAI's high-performance inference stack and Samsung Cloud Platform (SCP)'s scalable NVIDIA B300 GPU infrastructure.
By FriendliAI · Via Business Wire · April 15, 2026
FriendliAI Appoints Brian Yoo, Former Moloco COO, as Chief Business Officer to Drive Next Phase of Hypergrowth
FriendliAI, The Frontier AI Inference Cloud, today announced the appointment of Brian Yoo as Chief Business Officer. Joining from applied AI leader Moloco, Yoo will lead global commercial operations, go-to-market strategies, and partnerships as FriendliAI rapidly scales its high-performance, cost-efficient AI inference infrastructure worldwide.
By FriendliAI · Via Business Wire · April 8, 2026
FriendliAI Launches InferenceSense™ to Monetize Idle GPU Capacity
FriendliAI, The Frontier AI Inference Cloud, today launched Friendli InferenceSense™, the industry’s first inference monetization platform purpose-built for GPU cloud operators.
By FriendliAI · Via Business Wire · March 12, 2026
FriendliAI Launches Public Beta of PeriFlow Cloud
FriendliAI, a leading generative AI engine company, is proud to announce the public beta release of PeriFlow Cloud. This powerful platform empowers users to run PeriFlow, an engine for generative AI serving, within a managed cloud environment.
By FriendliAI · Via Business Wire · July 20, 2023
FriendliAI Announces New System to Hike Up the Serving Efficiency of Large-scale AI Models at OSDI 2022
FriendliAI released the serving system ‘Orca’ which dramatically enhances the serving efficiency of large-scale generative models at OSDI 2022. FriendliAI is a startup company that provides PeriFlow, a platform for developing large-scale AI models.
By FriendliAI · Via Business Wire · July 12, 2022