Aolani, a Singapore-founded neocloud provider of AI infrastructure, has announced a partnership to supply GPU cloud infrastructure to FriendliAI, a San Francisco-based inference cloud serving frontier AI. The collaboration aims to support the rapidly growing demand for AI inference services as businesses move from experimentation to deployment at scale.
The global market for AI inferencing is expanding quickly as AI applications become embedded in everyday business workflows. FriendliAI, founded by researchers who invented continuous batching—a standard technique in AI inference serving—delivers high-performance inference for open-weight and custom models. The company has built its inference stack end to end, from optimized GPU kernels to global distribution, and consistently ranks as one of the fastest inference providers on OpenRouter. Its enterprise clients include LG, Kilo Code, and Liner, which run production inference on the platform.
Efficient time-to-value and dependable compute are critical to keeping services responsive as usage grows. Access to reliable compute infrastructure is becoming a strategic differentiator for companies scaling production workloads, and more AI natives are turning to Asia for high-performance compute capacity, attracted by the region's expanding digital infrastructure, strategic connectivity, and growing AI ecosystem.
Aolani, one of the leading neoclouds offering purpose-built next-generation AI infrastructure, helps AI natives scale more efficiently. Its capabilities across orchestration, automation, and lifecycle management support FriendliAI's services. This partnership equips FriendliAI with the compute to serve rapid customer demand globally and increasingly in Asia.
Nicholas Chia, Chief Executive Officer at Aolani, said: "We're seeing inference needs grow faster than companies can find compute to support and service their customers. To narrow the supply and demand gap, we actively partner with companies like FriendliAI to deliver compute capacity on time, at scale, and to rigorous standards. We look forward to partnering with the FriendliAI team to grow its services to bring fast and reliable inference to developers worldwide."
Byung-Gon Chun, Founder and CEO of FriendliAI, said: "We are seeing exponential growth in demand for our frontier AI inference services. Businesses need the freedom to choose the AI models that best suit their applications and the ability to run them efficiently in production. Our job is to deliver high-performance, reliable inference so developers can focus on building their AI applications. Aolani stood out as a trusted infrastructure partner that can help us scale at the pace our customers need. We look forward to working with Aolani to support our mission."
For more information, visit Aolani's website and FriendliAI's website.
