On your own terms. Featherless.ai is on a mission to make open-source AI that is independent and reliable for everyone. 

• Now, they’ve just raised a $20M Series A. 

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Investor check. The round was co-led by AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures. BMW i Ventures, Kickstart Ventures, Panache Ventures, and Wavemaker Ventures also joined in. 

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🪽 The ABCs of Featherless

Featherless is a serverless inference platform that allows you to access thousands of open-source models from a single API.

• Their platform enables companies to own and run their models without being tied to a single cloud provider or a restricted tech stack.

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Why that matters. Having a neutral AI layer means your product’s underlying infrastructure is independent of any single AI developer, chipmaker, or hyperscaler. 

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Partnered up. Featherless is a Hugging Face inference partner and supports over 30K open models across language, vision, audio, and multimodal 

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🔽 Some more detail

Featherless offers a flat-rate capacity pricing model, with all three plans offering unlimited tokens. 

• This helps companies predict their costs and scale more effectively.

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🧱 What’s in store? 

They’ll use the fresh capital to scale their global infrastructure, launch a dedicated marketplace for specialized open models, and expand hardware diversity.