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 collaboration 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. At the forefront of production-scale AI, FriendliAI serves this demand by helping developers and enterprises deploy open-weight and custom AI models. Founded by researchers who invented continuous batching—now a standard across AI inference serving—FriendliAI has built its inference stack end to end, from optimized GPU kernels to global distribution, ensuring production AI workloads 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 increasingly important to keep services responsive as usage grows. 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, attracted by the region's expanding digital infrastructure, strategic connectivity, and growing AI ecosystem. Aolani, as 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 actively support FriendliAI's services, equipping the company 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."
This partnership matters because it directly addresses the compute bottleneck that threatens to slow AI innovation. As inference demand outpaces supply, collaborations like this ensure that developers and enterprises can deploy AI models reliably and efficiently. It also underscores Asia's emergence as a key hub for AI infrastructure, with Aolani's Singapore base providing strategic advantages in connectivity and compliance. For more information, visit https://www.aolanicloud.com/ and https://friendli.ai.
