Aolani, a Singapore-founded neocloud provider of AI infrastructure, has announced a partnership with FriendliAI, a San Francisco-based inference cloud for frontier AI, to supply GPU cloud infrastructure. The collaboration aims to address the rapidly growing demand for AI inference services as businesses move from experimentation to deployment at scale. Inference—the process of running trained AI models to generate outputs—is becoming a critical part of everyday business workflows, and reliable compute capacity is increasingly a strategic differentiator for companies scaling production workloads.
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. The company consistently ranks as one of the fastest inference providers on OpenRouter, with enterprise clients such as LG, Kilo Code, and Liner running production inference on its platform. As demand for frontier AI inference services grows exponentially, FriendliAI needs scalable, dependable compute infrastructure to maintain speed and reliability.
Aolani, one of the leading neoclouds offering purpose-built next-generation AI infrastructure, provides capabilities across orchestration, automation, and lifecycle management. This partnership equips FriendliAI with the compute capacity to serve rapid customer demand globally, particularly in Asia, where expanding digital infrastructure, strategic connectivity, and a growing AI ecosystem are attracting more AI natives. 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."
Byung-Gon Chun, Founder and CEO of FriendliAI, added, "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. Aolani stood out as a trusted infrastructure partner that can help us scale at the pace our customers need."
The partnership underscores a broader shift: as AI adoption accelerates, access to high-performance compute in Asia is becoming a competitive advantage. For developers and enterprises, this means faster, more reliable inference services, enabling them to focus on building AI applications. For the industry, it signals that neoclouds like Aolani are playing a pivotal role in bridging the supply-demand gap for AI compute. More information is available at Aolani's website and FriendliAI's website.
