Airbus Ventures has invested in Featherless.ai, a pioneering serverless AI inference platform. Featherless.ai’s cutting-edge technology maximizes GPU efficiency, minimizes downtime, and significantly lowers operational expenses, allowing it to deliver AI inference at a fraction of the usual cost.
“AI has the power to transform industries and empower individuals around the globe. However, accessing and utilizing a diverse range of models can be cost-prohibitive and logistically challenging for many users, particularly those in emerging markets, where there’s no shortage of demand for AI solutions,” remarks Eugene Cheah, Founder and CEO. “Featherless.ai is changing the game by providing a straightforward, affordable, scalable solution for using open source AI models in production.”
Featherless.ai offers instant, affordable access to the world’s largest collection of open-source AI models, with 4,000+ models and new additions every week. Its flat-capacity pricing model ensures cost predictability and scalability, allowing businesses to scale AI usage without worrying about unexpected fees or rate limits. This flexibility enables companies to focus on experimenting, testing, and refining AI models. With its latest funding, Featherless.ai plans to expand support for all major AI modalities, including embeddings, vision, and speech.
“Our research into foundational model development revealed that while much of the AI industry has focused on scaling existing Transformer models, fundamental inefficiencies in the architecture have remained unaddressed. As most foundational models struggle to maintain performance across multiple languages, creating accessibility barriers in global markets, these structural inefficiencies have threatened to stifle competition and innovation across the broader global ecosystem,” explains Yuichiro Hikosaka, Airbus Ventures Principal based in Tokyo. “Now enter Featherless.ai – a serverless platform that empowers users to run, test, and fine-tune the latest models seamlessly and affordably. Featherless.ai is ready and primed to address a global market.”
Featherless.ai is committed to developing next-generation AI architectures that significantly reduce inference costs, enabling AI deployment on affordable hardware instead of relying on high-end GPUs. The team actively contributes to the open-source RWKV foundation model project, the first AI model under the Linux Foundation, which has already been deployed on billions of devices. This initiative aligns with Featherless.ai’s mission to create accessible AI models across multiple languages and reduce dependence on closed-source models from major tech companies.
