Company: Featherless.ai
Co-Founders: Eugene Cheah, Harrison Vanderbyl, Wesley George
Website: https://featherless.ai/
About Featherless.ai
Featherless.ai is a serverless inference platform. Its goal is to make all AI models available for serverless inference. The company provides inference via API to a continually expanding library of open-weight models enabling enterprises and individuals to harness the full potential of artificial intelligence without worrying about underlying infrastructure.
Most recently, Featherless.ai, which is the fastest-growing platform for running open-source AI, has secured $20 million in Series A funding to give enterprises a new path to AI independence. The round was co-led by AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures, with participation from BMW i Ventures, Kickstart Ventures, Panache Ventures, and Wavemaker Ventures. Featherless.ai, which offers a production-ready alternative to proprietary compute environments, will use the capital to scale its global infrastructure, launch a dedicated marketplace for specialised open models and deepen its technical integration with diverse hardware architectures to continue driving down the cost of AI inference.
Currently, as the fastest-growing Hugging Face inference partner, Featherless.ai supports over 30,000 open models, from language and vision to audio, enabling developers to deploy production-grade AI instantly. It is a neutral layer for AI, unaligned with any hyperscaler, any chipmaker or any proprietary ecosystem. By hosting its core infrastructure in the US and EU with a global team across Canada, Europe, the US, Singapore and Australia, Featherless.ai is meeting a critical demand for sovereign AI, to respect jurisdictional boundaries and data privacy.
A core part of the Featherless.ai mission is hardware diversity. Through a strategic collaboration with AMD, Featherless.ai ensures that the world’s most popular open-source models run natively on the AMD ROCm™ software platform. This provides a competitive, auditable alternative to proprietary hardware systems, giving businesses a structural cost advantage.
Featherless.ai also aims to protect the industry from the dangers of AI monopolies. By ensuring that state-of-the-art models remain accessible outside proprietary ‘walled gardens’, Featherless.ai provides developers with the creative flexibility to build the next generation of applications.
Featherless.ai’s technical authority is built on deep research. The founding team created RWKV, a breakthrough open-source architecture designed to challenge the traditional dominance of transformers
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