Aolani, a Singapore-founded neocloud, has announced a partnership to provide GPU cloud infrastructure to FriendliAI, a San Francisco-based inference cloud for 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, driven by the integration of AI applications into everyday business workflows. FriendliAI, founded by researchers who invented continuous batching—a standard technique in AI inference serving—has built its inference stack end to end, from optimized GPU kernels to global distribution. This enables production AI workloads to run fast and reliably at scale. The company consistently ranks as one of the fastest inference providers on OpenRouter, with enterprise clients including LG, Kilo Code, and Liner running their production inference on the platform.
Efficient time-to-value and dependable compute are critical as usage grows. Access to reliable compute infrastructure is becoming a strategic differentiator for companies scaling production workloads. 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, as a leading neocloud offering purpose-built next-generation AI infrastructure, helps AI natives scale more efficiently. Its capabilities across orchestration, automation, and lifecycle management actively 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."
The partnership underscores the increasing importance of inference infrastructure in the AI ecosystem. As AI adoption accelerates, the ability to deploy and run models efficiently in production becomes a competitive advantage. For business and technology leaders, this collaboration signals a strategic move to address the compute bottleneck that many organizations face when scaling AI initiatives. It also highlights Asia's growing role as a hub for AI infrastructure, potentially influencing where companies choose to host their AI workloads. With Aolani's infrastructure and FriendliAI's optimized inference stack, the partnership aims to deliver the speed and reliability that agentic AI workloads demand. More information is available at Aolani's website and FriendliAI's website.
