FriendliAI is The Frontier AI Inference Cloud. Built by the researchers who invented the continuous batching technique that is now industry standard, FriendliAI provides AI engineers with a highly optimized engine that constantly evolves to efficiently run state-of-the-art open-weight and custom models at production scale. By maximizing GPU utilization, FriendliAI delivers speeds up to 3x faster than vLLM, and 50% to 90% cost savings relative to closed model APIs. FriendliAI empowers engineers t