Clarifai

We are an independent artificial intelligence company, founded in 2013 by Matthew Zeiler, Ph.D. Headquartered in Washington, DC, we provide a full-stack AI platform that helps teams create, manage, and deploy AI workloads. We specialize in building solutions for unstructured image, video, text, and audio data. Our platform supports the complete AI lifecycle, including data exploration, labeling, model development, evaluation, and inference. Our platform helps AI and InfraOps teams move models into production collaboratively.

Our platform supports AI workloads across various compute environments, including cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped setups. We offer flexible deployment options and optimized model serving to operationalize AI at scale. We focus on fast AI inference and reasoning on GPUs to reduce infrastructure costs. Our AI Runners bridge local AI to the cloud via API. The platform also offers services like Compute Orchestration for accelerated development and cost reduction, which is OpenAI-compatible.

Our platform enables the deployment of custom AI models, popular open-source models (like GPT-OSS-120B, DeepSeek-V3_1, Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct, Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking, MiniCPM4-8B, Devstral-Small-2505-unsloth-bnb, Claude-Sonnet-4, and Phi-4-Reasoning-Plus), and third-party closed-source models. It features model-agnostic hosting, automated deployments, Pythonic SDKs, and a powerful CLI. We also support custom MCP servers for agentic AI and allow users to run compute from local machines using “Local AI Runners.”

For cost efficiency, we offer serverless, dedicated, and enterprise compute options with transparent pricing. The platform is designed for ultra-low latency and high token throughput, supporting millions of inference requests per second with high reliability. Forrester recognized us as a leader in Computer Vision AI Platforms in 2019, and IDC MarketScape in 2022. We operate in over 170 countries, support over 400,000 users, and have served billions of predictions through more than 1 million AI models.

Our mission is to empower developers everywhere to create, share, and use The World’s AI™. We are committed to fostering a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion, which we view as essential to our core values.

Our core values guide our technology development, hiring, marketing, and sales:

• Community: We emphasize openness, internal and external collaboration, and mutual empowerment.
• Learning: We recognize that no one knows everything, encourage learning how to learn, and view change as information to learn from.
• Astonishment: We set ambitious expectations and strive to exceed them, making interactions positive and memorable.
• Responsibility: We take initiative, recognize that inaction yields no results, challenge ideas, and commit fully to decisions.
• Innovation: We extrapolate customer requests to create value, imagine the future, and build it.
• Fire: We lead by example with a passion for excellence, embracing both challenges and failures.
• Appreciation: We maintain humility in the face of opportunity with a straightforward approach.
• Impact: We leverage resources to maximize lasting value and continuously iterate.

We are a globally distributed, remote-friendly company with 51 to 200 employees. Our culture emphasizes career growth, supporting individual talents, skills, and potential. We promote a flexible work environment that encourages balance between family obligations and work duties.

We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We define diversity as the presence and celebration of differences among individuals; equity as understanding unique needs and eliminating barriers; and inclusion as making space for each person, sharing opportunities, and treating each other with integrity and respect. Our CEO and Founder, Matt Zeiler, Ph.D., states that our greatest responsibility is ensuring AI is taught in a diverse and global way, always considering how we are changing the world for the better.

We offer various benefits and perks, including continuous learning opportunities through monthly Hackdays and a yearly training stipend. We provide medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. Employees receive quarterly 401K contributions with no matching required, and unlimited paid time off. We provide a monthly stipend for home office expenses and cell phone reimbursement. We also offer generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leaves, as well as family medical care leave. Equity-based compensation is provided for long-term alignment.