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 deal aims to support rapidly growing demand for inference services as AI applications become integral to everyday business workflows and organizations move from experimentation to deployment at scale.
The global market for AI inferencing is expanding quickly, driven by the need to run open-weight and custom AI models efficiently in production. FriendliAI, founded by researchers who invented continuous batching—now a standard across AI inference serving—has built its inference stack end to end, from optimized GPU kernels to global distribution. The company consistently ranks as one of the fastest inference providers on OpenRouter, with enterprise clients including LG, Kilo Code, and Liner running production inference on its platform.
As access to reliable compute infrastructure becomes a strategic differentiator, 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 will support FriendliAI's services, equipping the company with 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 a broader shift: as AI adoption accelerates, access to scalable, efficient inference infrastructure is becoming as critical as model development itself. By combining Aolani's compute capacity with FriendliAI's optimized inference stack, the collaboration aims to reduce bottlenecks that can slow production AI deployments. For developers and enterprises, the ability to reliably serve models at scale can mean the difference between a promising pilot and a successful, revenue-generating application. The move also signals Asia's rising prominence as a hub for AI compute, with Singapore-based Aolani positioning itself as a key enabler for global AI companies seeking performance and reliability. More information is available at https://www.aolanicloud.com/ and https://friendli.ai.
