FriendliAI, an AI inference platform startup, has raised $20 million in a seed extension round, the company told Crunchbase News exclusively. For the unacquainted, AI inference is the “last mile” where users engage with artificial intelligence. When you query a chatbot and receive a response generated by an AI model, that process is known as inference. AI inference has become critically important, with 80% to 90% of GPUs dedicated to inference, and only the remainder used for training, according...