A LinkedIn post from FriendliAI describes new native support for the Anthropic Messages API in its inference platform. The post suggests developers can now send Anthropic-style JSON payloads directly, with features such as typed content blocks, tool-use flows, streaming events, and multimodal inputs handled without a separate compatibility layer.
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The post indicates this integration is intended to lower latency, expand feature coverage, and simplify migration for existing Claude-based applications. For investors, the move may enhance FriendliAI’s appeal to enterprise AI developers building on Anthropic’s ecosystem, potentially improving customer acquisition and retention and strengthening the company’s position in the competitive AI inference and tooling market.