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FriendliAI

The Frontier AI Inference Cloud

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FriendliAI is a cloud platform for running large language models and other AI models in production. It offers model APIs with OpenAI-compatible endpoints and dedicated GPU endpoints. The platform supports text, vision, and multimodal models, and provides features like JSON-mode, function/tool calling, and schema-guided outputs. It is SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant.

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