Clarifai is a full-stack AI platform company founded in 2013 by Matthew Zeiler, Ph.D. The company gained early recognition by taking the top five places in image classification at the ImageNet 2013 competition and has since expanded into a broad platform covering computer vision, natural language processing, and audio recognition. It has raised $100 million in funding, including a $60 million Series C round, with backing from Menlo Ventures, Union Square Ventures, NVIDIA, Google Ventures, and Qualcomm.
The platform spans the full AI lifecycle - data preparation, model training, production deployment, and monitoring - and is designed to handle unstructured image, video, text, and audio data at scale. Key capabilities include AI Compute Orchestration, edge deployment via Local Runners, and access to a catalogue of more than one million pre-trained AI models. The platform has reported inference throughput of 544 tokens per second using the GPT-OSS-120B model.
Clarifai serves over 400,000 users across 170+ countries and delivers billions of predictions. Its customer base includes Amazon, Siemens, NVIDIA, Canva, Vimeo, and OpenTable. The company has been recognised as a leader in Forrester's New Wave Computer Vision report.