Clarifai is a full-stack AI platform founded in 2013 by Matthew Zeiler, Ph.D. The company enables organisations to build, train, deploy, and monitor AI models across the entire machine learning lifecycle, handling unstructured data in the form of images, video, text, and audio. Its platform spans data preparation, model training, MLops, and production deployment, with edge deployment supported through its Local Runners feature and large-scale compute managed via AI Compute Orchestration.
The platform serves over 400,000 users across 170+ countries and provides access to more than one million AI models, delivering billions of predictions. On the infrastructure side, Clarifai has benchmarked throughput of 544 tokens per second using the GPT-OSS-120B model. Clients include Amazon, Siemens, NVIDIA, Canva, Vimeo, and OpenTable. The company has been recognised as a leader in Forrester's New Wave Computer Vision report.
Clarifai's technical roots trace to the ImageNet 2013 competition, where it took all five top places in image classification. The company has raised $100 million in total funding, including a $60 million Series C round, with backing from Menlo Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Google Ventures, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm.
