Announcing Clarifai Community - The World’s AI Community for Developers

 

Wow, what an amazing year we’ve had! And the future only looks brighter. I'm so excited to tell you about Clarifai Community, our next major product launch here at Clarifai. It's something we've been thinking about for over five years, going back to when we were raising our Series B. At that time we set out on a multiple-year journey to put all the tools for building world-class AI in one place, and in doing so we’ve become an AI accelerator for solving the most valuable business problems.

Last week we announced our Series C and now I would like to give you more details about an essential part of computer vision for Clarifai.

The World's AI Community: Build AI That is Accessible to Everyone

Today, we invite you to join us in building The World's AI Community—together.

Our mission has always been to bring AI to as many people as possible. You shouldn't have to be a Ph.D or a developer to build AI models. With our UIs, you can build world-class AI right in our user interfaces in just a few clicks. Our API clients let you take that AI and use it at production scale in whatever language you are coding in. We already have all the tools so you can make great AI—now we are opening it up so that everyone builds great AI together.

Clarifai Community makes the world's best AI resources available to everyone, including state-of-the-art models from organizations like Clarifai, Hugging Face, Facebook, and Google.

We are also making it possible for you to make your own AI assets public - starting with your best models and workflows.

We are bringing together the entire community of developers, researchers, data scientists, and business operators building The World's AI.

Clarifai Community:

• Fosters the acceleration of continuously improving AI
• Makes it easier to distribute AI and crowd-source AI development
• Contributes to increasing the visibility of academic research
• Encourages AI education for all skill levels

Introducing the AI Lake: The Future of AI Resource Management

Under the hood, the AI Lake is much more than a storage layer for all your inputs. The AI Lake is really incredible because you can manage all your AI resources in one place: images, text, audio, videos, annotations, the models you train, the workflows you assemble, and the concepts you want to recognize in the world. It's powered by the tools for model and workflow management as well as a knowledge graph of concepts that the community is creating.

To understand the power of this, it’s useful to break down model development into the 2 core components of building AI—the data and the algorithms.

AI Lake and Automated Data Labeling

All data that is stored can be automatically labeled in pre-processing workflows at the time of ingestion, or by humans with AI-assisted labeling. We help you label data 100x faster with humans only doing a fraction of the work. We provide streamlined user interfaces to optimize the human workflow. All that data gets indexed so that you can find it and manage it at scale. And you can snapshot your datasets so you can train on those datasets, evaluate models on those data sets, and make your AI reproducible. This allows you to really experiment and iterate as you build your AI for scale.

Model Algorithms

We’ve integrated state-of-the-art toolkits like Hugging Face, Detectron2, OpenMMLab so that all the best algorithms from the research community are at your fingertips so that you can integrate them into your AI apps and workflows.

But this is only the beginning. Clarifai shines because of its flexibility. With a click of a button you can train state-of-the-art models without having to tweak knobs or tune hyperparameters. You can even fine tune your already built models using transfer learning, which is a technique that leverages the context of what a model already understands and learn new concepts quickly. The way we’ve done this is so powerful because you can train models with just a few examples and still get high accuracy results.

And because data science teams are already working on their models, you can upload these into Clarifai and automatically get all of the benefits of Armada, which automates all of the ML Ops - you never have to worry about the MLOps or the DevOps again.

Sharing AI Apps and Resources With Everyone

Now that you’ve built great AI. We want you to share it with the world. We already have multiple ways to collaborate:

1. By inviting collaborators
2. Creating teams within your organization

With the launch of Clarifai Community, users can now make their AI resources discoverable by the public, for anyone to use.

From early on, we conceptualized AI Apps as the main container to house all the AI resources for a project in one place. This allows you to package all your work in a single container so that you can share and collaborate with others in the community and your own organization. And most importantly, because your AI is containerized, it's all reproducible.

Join the Software 2.0 Revolution

Many people are interested in collaborating on AI or making their work visible for various reasons. We have set a high bar for ourselves as we make it possible for you to do this. If you are interested in getting early access, we would love your input. Please visit Clarifai Community to get access and tell us what you think!

And of course, if you want to help us build The World’s AI - We’re hiring.