Twelve Labs

Twelve Labs is an AI-powered video search platform that helps developers build apps capable of interpreting video content like humans do.

At its core, Twelve Labs provides a highly advanced video search API, allowing developers to create applications that can see, hear, and understand the world around them. This innovative tool recently secured $12 million in additional seed funding and has teamed up with Oracle to enhance video analysis in various markets.

The platform works by identifying essential features from videos, such as actions, objects, spoken words, text displayed on screen, and the presence of people. All this information is converted into vector representations, allowing for quick and scalable searching based on meaning. Impressively, the AI models behind Twelve Labs have outperformed both open-source and commercial alternatives, even taking first place in the video retrieval track at the 2021 ICCV VALUE Challenge organized by Microsoft.

What’s great about Twelve Labs is its flexibility. Developers can customize it to meet their specific needs while enjoying multimodal contextual understanding. Integrating the platform is a breeze; with just a few API calls, users can get things up and running smoothly. This makes it an essential resource for developers and product managers who want to create apps with a deep comprehension of video content.

The Twelve Labs platform offers a variety of APIs and a user-friendly playground that allows developers to quickly transform their video catalogs into searchable databases. Its applications are diverse, ranging from contextual advertising and content moderation to evidence searches, media analytics, digital asset management, and even video editing. Whether you're looking to recommend videos or ensure brand safety, Twelve Labs equips you with the tools to make your video content more accessible and easier to understand.