Twelve Labs

Twelve Labs is a company specializing in multimodal AI that comprehends videos similarly to humans. They offer APIs designed to power intelligent video applications, including functionalities like Search, Generate, and Classify. Their flagship products include Marengo-2.6, a state-of-the-art video foundation model for any-to-any search, and Pegasus-1, a video-language foundation model. Users can explore their technology through a Playground platform, which supports various video understanding tasks such as video summarization, question answering, and conversations. Twelve Labs provides a flexible deployment model that can operate on native cloud, private cloud, or on-premise environments. They offer a developer-friendly SDK available in Python and JavaScript, with Golang and Java support coming soon. The company supports multilingual search for over 100 languages and uses advanced video foundation models to create rich video embeddings for downstream tasks. Their security and privacy policy includes data encryption in transit and at rest, along with advanced authentication methods. Twelve Labs is recognized by leading researchers for its world-class accuracy in video understanding and is capable of handling large video libraries, including exabytes of data. They provide enterprise-grade security and are working towards SOC2 and ISO 27001 compliance. The company participated in the 2021 Techstars Seattle program and raised $5 million in seed funding from Index Ventures. They were named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2023 and recognized as one of the most promising artificial intelligence startups of 2022 by CB Insights. Twelve Labs offers a range of pricing plans, including Free, Developer, and Enterprise options.