Company profile
Featherless AI
Serverless inference via GPU orchestration and model load-balancing.
- Category
- AI infrastructure
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Sells to
- Developers
- Business model
- Usage-based API
- Deployment
- API, Cloud / SaaS
- Pricing
- Published
- Builds own models
- No — builds on existing models
- Modalities
- Text, Code, Multimodal
What Featherless AI does
Featherless AI provides serverless inference for large language models (LLMs) and other open-weight AI models through an API. The platform offers GPU orchestration and model load-balancing, enabling organizations to size their server fleet to throughput needs, not the number of models in their catalog. It supports fine-tuning and provides instant access to a catalog of over 40,000 open models, including those for role-playing, creative writing, coding assistance, and reasoning. The API is OpenAI compatible, allowing for easy integration into existing client programs.
Key capabilities
- Serverless inference
- GPU orchestration
- Model load-balancing
- OpenAI compatible API
- Access to 40,000+ open models
- Fine-tuning enablement
- Cost calculation for savings
- Public cloud inference for 10k+ open weight models
Use cases
- Role-playing
- Creative writing
- Coding assistance
- Agentic coding
- Reasoning
- Multimodal instruct
- Math problem solving
- Long-form roleplay
- Prose-focused writing
- Uncensored assistant
- Efficient reasoning
- Frontier reasoning
- Vision-language model
- Multilingual chat
- Dual-mode chat model
- Chat & coding model
- Dual-mode reasoning
- Compact reasoning
- Tool use
AI approach
Featherless AI provides a serverless inference platform for open-weight AI models, primarily large language models (LLMs). They offer GPU orchestration and model load-balancing to enable serverless inference and fine-tuning. Users access a catalog of 40,000+ models via an OpenAI-compatible API.
Tech named: GPU orchestration, model load-balancing, serverless inference, fine-tuning, OpenAI compatible API, large language models (LLMs), linear-transformer model (QRWKV)
What it says sets it apart
- Run GLM 5.2 on AMD exclusively
- Freedom to reliably deploy any open model effortlessly
- One API key for instant access
- Serverless inference platform
- Continually expanding library of open-weight models
- OpenAI compatible API interface
Funding rounds we track
AMD Ventures, Airbus Ventures, BMW i Ventures, Kickstart Ventures, Panache Ventures, Wavemaker Ventures
Airbus Ventures, 500 Global, Kickstart Ventures, HF0, Panache Ventures, Oakseed Ventures
From the AI funding tracker — rounds as reported by the linked publications.
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