# FriendliAI

> FriendliAI is a San Francisco-based AI inference cloud built by the researchers who invented continuous batching - the technique now standard across the industry. Its platform serves open-weight and custom generative AI models in production with high throughput, lower GPU costs, and 99.99% reliability, used by customers including LG and Twelve Labs.

- **Founded:** 2021
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Byung-Gon Chun (Founder & CEO)
- **Team size:** ~50
- **Products:** Friendli Dedicated Endpoints, Friendli Serverless Endpoints, Friendli Container, PeriFlow Engine
- **Notable:** Invented continuous batching (iteration-level scheduling), now an industry-standard inference technique., Closed $20M seed extension in August 2025 led by Capstone Partners., Opened a 7,000 sq ft San Francisco office at 20 Hawthorne Street (Crown Point Press building) in 2026.

## Products & services

- **Friendli Dedicated Endpoints** — Managed, autoscaling endpoints for custom and open-weight LLMs and multimodal models, deployable from the Hugging Face Hub.
- **Friendli Serverless Endpoints** — Pay-per-token inference on popular open-weight models for fast prototyping and production.
- **Friendli Container** — Self-hosted inference engine for VPC and on-prem deployments with enterprise-grade reliability.
- **PeriFlow Engine** — The proprietary inference engine, pioneer of continuous batching and iteration batching, that underpins the entire platform.

## Achievements

- Invented continuous batching (iteration-level scheduling), now an industry-standard inference technique.
- Closed $20M seed extension in August 2025 led by Capstone Partners.
- Opened a 7,000 sq ft San Francisco office at 20 Hawthorne Street (Crown Point Press building) in 2026.
- Appointed Brian Yoo (former Moloco COO) as Chief Business Officer in 2026.
- SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance for enterprise workloads.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Opened new San Francisco office to scale frontier AI inference operations.
- **2026-04** — Hired Brian Yoo, former Moloco COO, as Chief Business Officer.
- **2025-08** — Raised $20M seed extension led by Capstone Partners with Sierra Ventures, Alumni Ventures, KDB and KB Securities.

## Links

- Website: https://friendli.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/friendliai
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/friendliai
- GitHub: https://github.com/friendliai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@friendliai

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Last updated: 2026-06-29