LG AI Research and FriendliAI announced a strategic partnership to make LG’s advanced new AI models EXAONE 4.0 publicly available, for the first time, through FriendliAI’s serverless inference infrastructure. FriendliAI is an AI inference provider for open source LLMs. The collaboration brings EXAONE 4.0 to developers and enterprises worldwide through a simple API interface.
EXAONE 4.0 is LG AI Research’s latest breakthrough in large language models (LLMs), delivering advanced reasoning and natural language generation suited for a wide range of enterprise applications. Powered by FriendliAI’s optimized inference, EXAONE 4.0 can be deployed at scale with exceptional efficiency—offering high throughput and low latency without the usual infrastructure constraints.
Through FriendliAI’s Serverless Endpoint, organizations can seamlessly integrate EXAONE 4.0 into their workflows with enterprise-grade performance and reliability. The partnership removes technical barriers that have historically limited access to powerful language models.
EXAONE 4.0 is available immediately via FriendliAI’s platform bringing the latest in large-scale language model innovation from LG AI Research to developers and businesses around the world.
Hwayoung (Edward) Lee, Vice President, Lead of AI Business Transformation Unit, LG AI Research
FriendliAI’s high-performance platform makes it easy for organizations to test and deploy applications built using the new series of EXAONE 4.0 models without investing in infrastructure. Their inference platform delivers the efficiency and speed needed for real-world deployment of EXAONE 4.0 at scale.
Byung-Gon Chun, founder & CEO, FriendliAI
Through our partnership with LG, we’re giving developers–from startups to global enterprises–a frictionless way to quickly begin deploying the EXAONE 4.0 model. With just a few lines of code, any organization can harness the full potential of EXAONE 4.0 without the usual complexity.
