FriendliAI
Also listed as 2 other names
FriendliAI Corp · FriendliAI Corp.
Circuit mix
Where FriendliAI shows up, by circuit. Each event counts once: 2 if it sponsored, 1 if it only had speakers. Hover a segment for the conference.
- AI engineering & MLOps50%5 events
- Research40%4 events
- Vendor flagships & roadshows10%1 event
The year around now
Conferences where FriendliAI sponsored or had speakers in the past 12 months, and the announced events it is already listed for. One row per conference, January to December; hover a mark for the event and the company's role.
Presence by conference and year
Each cell is one conference in one year. Fill shows the company sponsored, shaded by its best tier that year; a dot means it had speakers there. Hover for details; click to open the event.
- Title
- Platinum
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Other / unlabeled tier
- Had speakers
Activity by year
Three measures on one year axis; each panel has its own scale.
Conferences present at
Distinct conferences each year, split by whether the company sponsored or only had speakers there.
- Sponsored
- Speakers only
Distinct speakers
People from this company on a program that year, each counted once.
Sponsorships by tier
Sponsorship rows per year (one per event and listing), stacked by normalized tier.
- Gold
- Silver
- Other / unlabeled
Where they've grown or pulled back
DownSponsored 2 conferences in 2026, down from 3 in 2023.
Counted per conference. 2026 is the latest year whose conferences have mostly happened. Tiers use the best tier each year; swatches show the path, oldest first. A conference counts as pulled out only when a later event published a complete sponsor list, since most events don’t say whether their list is complete.
Moved up 2
Best tier rose between the first and latest year with a ranked tier.
- AI Engineer (World's Fair, Summit and regional editions)Silver 2024 → Gold 2026
- ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning)Silver 2023 → Gold 2026
Pulled out 1
Not sponsored since 2024 or earlier, though a later event published a complete sponsor list without them.
- MLSys (Conference on Machine Learning and Systems)last sponsored 2023; the conference ran again in 2024–26
Steady 1
Sponsored in most years of its span at the same tier.
- ODSC (Open Data Science Conference)every year 2024–25, mostly Silver
Once or on and off 2
No clear direction, or a gap we can’t confirm because later sponsor lists are incomplete.
- Data + AI Summitonce, 2024, unranked tier
- NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)once, 2023, Silver
Lookalikes
Companies with the most similar conference footprint: they sponsor and speak at the same conferences. Bars are cosine similarity, from 0 (nothing shared) to 1 (identical).
- Comet0.83
- Exa0.83
- Runpod0.82
- Lovable0.82
- DeepMind0.80
- DatologyAI0.79
- Ollama0.77
- Together AI0.77
11 Cluster: AI Engineer · QCon circuit →
Often sponsors alongside
Companies that sponsored the same events, by number of shared events (out of 10 this company sponsored).
| Company | Shared events | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 90% | |
| Microsoft | 9 | 90% |
| Amazon Web Services | 5 | 50% |
| Baseten | 5 | 50% |
| Lambda | 5 | 50% |
| NVIDIA | 5 | 50% |
| Weights & Biases | 5 | 50% |
| Baidu | 4 | 40% |
| Cerebras | 4 | 40% |
| Crusoe | 4 | 40% |
| The D. E. Shaw Group | 4 | 40% |
| Databricks | 4 | 40% |
| Fireworks AI | 4 | 40% |
| IBM | 4 | 40% |
| Jane Street | 4 | 40% |
Neighborhood: companies with nearby conference footprints
FriendliAI (ringed) and the 30 companies closest to it on the company map. Close together means they sponsor and speak at many of the same conferences. Distances are only meaningful locally; the axes have no meaning. Dot size: conferences present at. Color: cluster.
Sponsorships 10
| Event | Date | Place | Tier as listed | Normalized tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICML 2026 | Jul 6–11, 2026 | Seoul, South Korea | Gold | Gold |
| AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | Jun 29, 2026 – Jul 2, 2026 | San Francisco, United States | Gold | Gold |
| ODSC AI West 2025 | Oct 28–30, 2025 | Burlingame, United States | Partner (untiered) | Unlabeled |
| PyTorch Conference 2025 | Oct 22–23, 2025 | San Francisco, United States | Startup + Non-Profit + VC | Startup |
| ODSC West 2024 | Oct 29–31, 2024 | Burlingame, United States | Silver Partners | Silver |
| AI Engineer World's Fair 2024 | Jun 25–27, 2024 | San Francisco, United States | Silver Sponsors | Silver |
| Data + AI Summit 2024 | Jun 10–13, 2024 | San Francisco, United States | Enthusiast | Other |
| NeurIPS 2023 | Dec 10–16, 2023 | New Orleans, United States | Silver | Silver |
| ICML 2023 | Jul 23–29, 2023 | Honolulu, United States | Silver | Silver |
| MLSys 2023 | Jun 5–8, 2023 | Miami Beach, United States | Silver | Silver |
Speakers 3
| Speaker | Event | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Campos | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | Inference performance as a competitive advantage | — |
| Byung-Gon (Gon) Chun | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | The Frontier AI Inference Cloud for Agents | Video |
| Yunmo Koo | AI Engineer World's Fair 2026 | speaker | Inference performance as a competitive advantage | — |