What Clarifai does
Clarifai is an enterprise-focused AI platform that helps teams build, evaluate, deploy, and operate AI workloads on “any compute” (cloud, hybrid, on-prem, and air-gapped). In practice, Clarifai bundles a control plane for managing AI lifecycle resources (data, models, workflows/apps) with “Compute Orchestration” that schedules and routes inference workloads across compute clusters and hardware, aiming to reduce vendor lock-in and operational overhead.
On the product side, Clarifai positions Compute Orchestration as the system layer for production inference: it provides mechanisms to create compute clusters and nodepools, deploy models into those nodepools, and route prediction requests to the appropriate deployment for performance/cost/security control. It also supports “local runners” and exposes models through Clarifai’s enterprise-grade API, which is designed to support development workflows before moving into cloud/on-prem production.
Clarifai’s business model is a platform/usage approach for teams building AI applications: the company describes serving AI lifecycle capabilities for “developers, business operators, and data scientists,” with Compute Orchestration and related tooling intended to run models at scale for enterprise customers.