Clarifai

New York computer vision and AI platform for building, deploying and operating models.[1][2][3][8]

Overview

Clarifai is a New York, NY-headquartered AI company whose platform uses deep learning to transform unstructured images, video and text into structured data [1]. The platform enables teams to build, deploy and manage AI across any infrastructure, from shared cloud to on-premise or edge environments [3]. Clarifai's platform is organized into three functional areas: Compute for orchestrating AI models with cost-efficient deployment and scaling [4], Control & Governance for managing AI resources and monitoring performance through a unified control plane [4], and Create & Manage for customizing AI workloads with tools for labeling, training, evaluating and deploying models [4]. The platform includes modules for Agents, Deployments, Inference, Pipelines and Local Runners for edge deployment [5]. Clarifai's documentation covers integrations with frameworks including LangChain, LlamaIndex and Databricks, and hosts models including OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b [6].

Clarifai's platform is organized into Compute ("Orchestrate AI models with cost-efficient deployment, scaling, and optimization across environments"), Control & Governance ("Manage AI resources, monitor performance, and track costs through a unified control plane") and Create & Manage ("Customize AI workloads with tools for labelling, training, evaluating, and deploying models"). [4]

Clarifai's modules include Agents ("Build and deploy intelligent AI agents that reason, plan, and act autonomously"), Deployments, Inference, Pipelines and Local Runners for edge deployment. [5]

Business address: 2801 Centerville Rd, Wilmington, Delaware, 19808. [7]

Partnerships

Clarifai's documentation covers integrations with LangChain, LlamaIndex, Embedchain, Databricks, DSPy, Unstructured.io and DeepEval, and hosting of models including OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b. [6]

Alumni

Backers

  • Union Square Ventures

    A venture capital firm that invests in companies operating at the intersection of large markets and technological transformation.

  • Union Square Ventures

    NYC-based venture capital firm investing in early-stage networks and internet infrastructure

  • Menlo Ventures

    Early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1976 investing in AI, healthcare, consumer, cybersecurity, fintech, infrastructure, robotics and SaaS, with $3 billion in new capital earmarked for AI startups.

  • NEA

    New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare from seed through IPO, with offices including Menlo Park.

Deals & lineage

Spun out of

  • New York University

    NYU, whose Technology Opportunities and Ventures office lists AI startups formed on NYU innovations, including Clarifai (2013, PI Matthew Zeiler)

Partnerships

  • Nebius

    Amsterdam-headquartered AI infrastructure company that licensed New York AI company Clarifai's inference technology and took on its core engineering team in May 2026

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