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Open source artificial intelligence (AI) model hosting startup Federless AI raises $20 million in a new funding round, equivalent to approximately 29.376 billion Korean won. The company plans to use this capital to expand its global infrastructure and launch a brand-new professional open model trading marketplace.

Founded in 2024, Federless AI claims to have built a “neutral hosting layer” that supports enterprises in running open source AI without binding to specific clouds or hardware. Currently, the company offers over 30,000 open models including language, vision, and audio, and is described as one of the fastest-growing inference partners within Hugging Face.

The core of the company lies in a single application programming interface (API). Customers can access multiple models through one API, while actual graphics processing unit (GPU) allocation, scaling, and traffic distribution are managed by Federless AI. It explains that for enterprises, this reduces the barrier to adopting experimental open source AI by eliminating the need to build infrastructure for each model.

Federless AI stated in a release: “We have not only built a ‘inference engine’ but also created an ‘AI optimization stack’ that integrates inference, models, and workflow optimization.” It emphasized, “Through this architecture, we can achieve performance and cost-efficiency levels on a scale of 30,000 models that are difficult to reach with closed platforms even on single models.”

RWKV developer joins… Led by AMD and Airbus Ventures

Co-founder Eugene Cheah (CEO) is one of the creators of the open source model architecture “RWKV,” developed under the Linux Foundation. RWKV features a recurrent structure as an alternative to existing Transformer-based systems. The company is built around core personnel from the RWKV open source community, including CTO Harrison Vanderbyl and COO Wesley George.

This Series A funding round was co-led by AMD Ventures and Airbus Ventures. BMW i Ventures, Kickstart Ventures, Panoia Ventures, and WaveMaker Ventures also participated. Previously, Federless AI had received support from Airbus Ventures in 2025, completing a seed round of $5 million.

The new funds will be focused on three areas. First, expanding infrastructure to more regions; second, launching a dedicated marketplace for trading fine-tuned models and open models optimized for specific purposes; and third, strengthening integration with various hardware architectures, including AMD accelerators, to further reduce inference costs.

Enterprise evaluates open models as alternatives to closed AI

This funding aligns with the trend in the enterprise AI market. Recently, corporate clients have been paying attention to the performance of closed, cutting-edge models like OpenAI and Anthropic, while also weighing the high costs and platform dependency risks. Meanwhile, companies such as Meta Platforms, Mistral AI, and Alibaba Group Holdings have provided alternatives by increasing the release of open weight models.

In this environment, open source AI infrastructure companies like Federless AI can target both “broadening choices” and “reducing costs.” Especially as enterprises compare multiple models or rapidly test industry-specific models, the utilization of inference platforms based on a single API may further increase.

Ultimately, this round of investment is not just a simple fundraising; it also indicates that the open source AI ecosystem has officially entered the infrastructure competition stage within the enterprise market. In the future, whether Federless AI’s market can attract actual demand will be a key variable in measuring the speed of open models’ commercialization.

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