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• Amazon Bedrock (Amazon Web Services) — Managed AWS service for building applications with foundation models from multiple providers via one API. Paid
• Azure AI Foundry (Microsoft) — Microsoft's platform for building, evaluating, and deploying AI applications and agents on Azure. Paid
• Baseten (Baseten) — Platform for deploying and serving machine-learning models as scalable APIs. Paid
• Cerebras (Cerebras Systems) — AI compute company whose inference cloud serves open language models on wafer-scale hardware. Freemium
• Civitai (Civitai) — Community platform for sharing and discovering open image-generation models, LoRAs, and generated art. Freemium
• Dify (LangGenius) — Open-source platform for building LLM applications with visual agent workflows, RAG pipelines, and model management. Open (open weights/source)
• Fal.ai (fal) — Generative media inference platform for running diffusion and other models with a fast API. Paid
• Fireworks AI (Fireworks AI) — Inference platform for fast serving and fine-tuning of open-source generative AI models. Paid
• Groq (Groq) — AI inference platform powered by custom LPU hardware for very low-latency serving of open language models. Freemium
• Hugging Face (Hugging Face, Inc.) — Platform hosting machine learning models, datasets, and demo apps, centered on open-source AI. Freemium
• Jan (Menlo Research) — Open-source desktop app for running open language models locally as an offline ChatGPT alternative. Open (open weights/source)
• LM Studio (LM Studio) — Desktop application for discovering, downloading, and running open large language models locally. Free
• Ollama (Ollama) — Open-source tool for running open large language models locally on your own machine with a simple command-line interface. Open (open weights/source)
• Open WebUI (Open WebUI) — Extensible, self-hosted AI interface that runs offline and connects to local or remote models such as Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs. Open (open weights/source)
• OpenRouter (OpenRouter) — Unified API gateway that routes requests to hundreds of large language models from many providers. Paid
• Pinecone (Pinecone) — Managed vector database for similarity search and retrieval in AI applications. Freemium
• Poe (Quora) — Platform from Quora providing access to multiple AI chatbots and models through a single interface. Freemium
• Replicate (Replicate) — Platform for running and deploying open-source machine learning models via a hosted API. Paid
• Together AI (Together AI) — Cloud platform for running, fine-tuning, and hosting open-source AI models via serverless and dedicated endpoints. Paid
• Vertex AI (Google) — Google Cloud's platform for training, tuning, and serving machine learning and generative AI models. Paid
• vLLM (vLLM Project) — Open-source inference and serving engine for large language models, known for high-throughput PagedAttention. Open (open weights/source)
• Weaviate (Weaviate) — Open-source vector database for semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation, and hybrid search. Open (open weights/source)

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