Friendly AI-Navius Partnership Cuts GPU Costs by Up to 90%

FriendlyAI, an AI inference service company, is opening new horizons for AI services through a strategic collaboration with Navius, an AI cloud infrastructure company. This partnership is designed to combine FriendlyAI's unique inference acceleration and optimization technology with Navius's robust AI cloud infrastructure, enabling enterprise customers to experience an optimized AI model deployment environment. Navius, a global cloud company headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is a NASDAQ-listed company that provides AI workload infrastructure across Europe, North America, and Israel, serving as a core infrastructure provider for the AI industry. It recently demonstrated its technological prowess and influence by signing a $19.4 billion AI computing partnership with Microsoft. FriendlyAI possesses technology that can reduce GPU costs incurred during the AI inference process by up to 90% and dramatically improve inference speed. Through technologies such as model infrastructure optimization and continuous batch processing, it guarantees a high uptime (SLA) of 99.99% and supports over 460,000 Hugging Face models, assisting with the overall launch and deployment of AI products from prototype to actual operation. Through this collaboration, companies operating various AI services such as customer support chatbots, coding assistants, and AI agents on Navius's infrastructure will be able to leverage FriendlyAI's API to build a low-latency, stable, and cost-efficient inference environment. Jun Byung-gon, CEO of FriendlyAI, stated, "Our goal is to make AI inference technology easily accessible to all companies," adding that this cooperation will provide customers with an excellent AI model deployment experience. Building on this collaboration, FriendlyAI is accelerating its global expansion strategy. Previously, it became the first Korean company to offer AI model deployment options on Hugging Face, and it has strengthened its global presence through participation in global AI conferences and recruitment of key talents. Furthermore, it has been recognized for its technological capabilities as an official partner for LG AI Research's 'Exaone 4.0' and a participating company in the government's K-AI Model project, continuing its growth trajectory by recently securing $20 million in seed extension investment from Silicon Valley VCs and others.