According to a recent LinkedIn post from FriendliAI, the company’s platform now natively supports the Anthropic Messages API used by Claude-based applications. The post describes support for typed content blocks, conversation-state rules, tool-use flows, streaming events aligned with Anthropic semantics, and multimodal inputs including text and images.
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The post suggests that eliminating a compatibility layer could reduce latency and improve reliability for inference workloads while enabling full use of Anthropic’s structured content and tooling features. For investors, this may indicate FriendliAI is positioning itself as an attractive infrastructure option for developers already building on Claude, potentially increasing customer acquisition, usage volumes, and integration depth within the growing AI agent and inference market.