Aolani, a Singapore-founded neocloud powering AI growth, has announced a partnership to supply GPU cloud infrastructure to FriendliAI, the San Francisco-headquartered inference cloud for frontier AI. The move aims to support the rapidly growing demand for inference services as AI applications become integral to everyday business workflows and organizations shift from experimentation to deployment at scale.
The global market for AI inferencing is expanding quickly, driven by enterprises seeking to deploy open-weight and custom AI models efficiently. FriendliAI, founded by researchers who invented continuous batching—a standard across 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 relying on its platform for production inference.
As access to reliable compute infrastructure becomes a strategic differentiator for companies scaling production workloads, more AI natives are turning to Asia for high-performance compute capacity. The region's expanding digital infrastructure, strategic connectivity, and growing AI ecosystem make it an attractive destination. 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 directly support FriendliAI's services, equipping the company with the compute needed 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 a broader shift as AI inferencing becomes a critical workload for enterprises. By combining Aolani's purpose-built infrastructure with FriendliAI's optimized inference stack, the collaboration aims to address the compute bottleneck that threatens to slow AI deployment. For more information, visit https://www.aolanicloud.com/ and https://friendli.ai.
