Washington, D.C. – Februrary 11, 2025 -- Clarifai, a global leader in AI and pioneer of the full-stack AI platform, today announced its strategic alliance with Arrow Electronics, Inc., a leading global technology distributor, to deliver flexible, end-to-end AI capabilities that help companies maximize business value from AI projects. This collaboration appoints Arrow as Clarifai’s official commercial distributor, accelerating AI adoption across industries by leveraging Arrow’s extensive global distribution network.
Together, Clarifai and Arrow will deliver customized, cutting-edge AI tools that enhance productivity, streamline operations, and drive innovation. By offering Clarifai’s advanced AI models and platform into Arrow’s expansive ecosystem, businesses will gain seamless access to powerful AI-driven solutions for computer vision, natural language processing, and data labeling – compatible with any model, on any compute, and at any scale.
To further enhance AI performance and manage costs, companies can use Clarifai’s Compute Orchestration capabilities, announced in December, to optimize compute resources through a unified control plane with centralized governance across any cloud or on-premises environment.
“Arrow's extensive expertise and market presence combined with Clarifai’s unmatched full-stack AI capabilities comes at a perfect time, when companies are facing mounting pressure to show ROI on their AI projects and looking to avoid vendor lock-in,” said Jonathan Padgett, VP of Global Sales at Clarifai. “Whether a team has hit a roadblock in reaching full-scale production or wants to optimize performance, costs, and resources, we look forward to delivering tailored solutions that meet their unique needs.”
Arrow Electronics will distribute Clarifai’s suite of AI solutions across diverse sectors, including manufacturing, healthcare, retail, and financial services. This alliance will streamline the procurement process, enabling organizations to harness AI technology more efficiently and drive competitive advantage.
“Maximizing value from AI deployments is a priority for many of our channel partners and their customers, said Shannon McWilliams, vice president of cloud and AI sales for Arrow enterprise computing solutions in North America. “Clarifai’s AI platform and solutions can help organizations extract value from unstructured data at any stage of AI development, including dataset preparation, model training and deployment. We’re excited to introduce their solutions to our customers.”
With Clarifai’s full-stack AI platform, businesses can bring their unique AI workloads or customize them using powerful tools for data management, training, evaluation, and more—all while seamlessly orchestrating workloads across any compute.
Together, Clarifai and Arrow seek to provide increased AI deployment across Arrow’s extensive customer base by creating operational efficiencies and accelerating time to market for AI-powered products and services.
More information on Clarifai solutions available through Arrow can be found here.
About Clarifai
Clarifai is a global leader in AI and the pioneer of the full-stack AI platform that helps organizations, teams, and developers build, deploy, and operationalize AI at scale. Clarifai's cutting-edge AI platform supports today's modern AI technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs), Large Vision Models (LVMs), Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), automated data labeling, high-volume production inference, and more. Founded in 2013, Clarifai is available in cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments and has been used to build more than 1.5 million AI models with more than 400,000 users in 170 countries. Learn more at www.clarifai.com.
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