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Clarifai

What Clarifai does

Clarifai is an enterprise AI infrastructure platform focused on deploying and running foundation models and custom models with compute orchestration, governance, and operational tooling. The company’s platform is organized around building and managing AI workloads end-to-end, including dataset/model workflows and production inference, with features intended to simplify routing, scaling, and cost monitoring for organizations that need reliable model execution in production. Clarifai’s documentation describes core user journeys including compute deployment/inference, control/governance, and model/data creation & management.

As of 2026-08-23, Clarifai is no longer operating as an independent company; Nebius states it is licensing Clarifai’s AI inference and compute orchestration IP and has integrated Clarifai’s “core engineering and research talent,” while Nebius also states it will acquire Clarifai’s patent portfolio covering AI inference and compute orchestration technologies. The Nebius announcement positions Clarifai primarily as part of Nebius’s broader “Token Factory” / AI cloud strategy (i.e., Clarifai’s technology is embedded into Nebius’s inference platform rather than sold as a standalone startup offering).

News

Company record

Aug 12, 2026 · Reporting · SEC filing (via Yahoo Finance mirror)Clarifai onboarding/integration referenced in Nebius acquisition/investor disclosures (SEC filing; ClarifAI listed among completed acquisitions)

A Nebius SEC filing references completion of acquisitions including ClarifAI, indicating the Clarifai business/portfolio has been integrated into Nebius corporate disclosures as part of Nebius’s acquisitions during 2026 reporting periods.

May 23, 2026 · Official · NebiusNebius welcomes Clarifai’s core team and licenses Clarifai’s inference IP; Nebius states it will acquire Clarifai’s patent portfolio covering AI inference and compute orchestration

Nebius states it has integrated Clarifai’s core engineering and research talent and entered into an IP arrangement to strengthen Nebius’s Token Factory inference platform, including a statement that Nebius will acquire Clarifai’s patent portfolio while receiving a non-exclusive, perpetual license to Clarifai’s modern AI inference and reasoning technology stack.

Oct 16, 2025 · Official · ClarifaiClarifai 11.9 introduces a “Clarifai Reasoning Engine” optimized for agentic AI inference; blog describes continuous workload-driven optimization and integration steps

Clarifai published a product update describing the Clarifai Reasoning Engine and associated toolkits, including new models and new cloud instance types.

Nov 01, 2024 · Official · Clarifai DocsClarifai release notes: Release 11.5 highlights multi-step, goal-directed agentic capabilities across the Clarifai platform

Clarifai release notes describe Release 11.5 as enabling development of multi-step, goal-directed AI agents and include related platform/pricing changes.

Sep 01, 2024 · Official · ClarifaiClarifai 10.9: “Control Center” unified AI dashboard

Clarifai published a product update introducing Control Center as a unified dashboard for operational management of Clarifai activities.

May 01, 2023 · Official · ClarifaiClarifai blog: “New Portal Public Preview” (platform/portal experience update)

Clarifai announced a public preview of its portal experience, positioning it as a platform update for developers and teams.

Nov 30, 2021 · Official · ClarifaiClarifai Release 7.11 published (platform models and improvements)

Clarifai release notes for Release 7.11 describe improvements across the platform and new state-of-the-art models available at the time of publication.

Apr 06, 2021 · Official · Clarifai (press release PDF)Clarifai expands its product portfolio for enterprise and public sector customers (press release)

Clarifai published a Q1 2021 product portfolio expansion announcement covering its AI product offerings across unstructured data types and the AI lifecycle.

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Funding

Latest disclosed valuationNot disclosed
Tracked capital$101.3M5 sourced rounds
DateRoundRaisedValuationLead / investorsEvidence
May 12, 2026Reverse acqui-hire / IP licensing integration (reported in investor materials; not presented as a disclosed cash valuation round by Clarifai)
Jul 01, 2014Seed (amount reported by third-party)$1.3M

What it builds

Clarifai Platform (AI Platform)

The unified platform intended to support the full AI lifecycle for production AI workloads, including deploying and running inference and managing AI resources across an organization.

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Compute Orchestration (Deployments, Routing, Inference)

Compute and inference capabilities that include deployment orchestration and request routing across active deployments and compute nodepools.

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Pipelines

A pipeline system with templates intended for training, evaluation, and running models, with trained artifacts registered back into the model registry for subsequent serving/evaluation.

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Control Center

A unified operational dashboard intended to consolidate management activities (including usage and cost monitoring) across Clarifai operations.

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AI Lake

Clarifai’s product concept for organizing AI assets—datasets, models, evaluations, vectors/predictions, and workflows—into projects/apps so teams can manage and collaborate on AI development and operations.

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Scribe (Automated data labeling)

An automated data labeling component described as part of Clarifai’s end-to-end platform offering for preparing unstructured data for model training.

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Milestones & partnerships

May 23, 2026
Nebius integration milestone: Clarifai’s core team joining Nebius and IP licensing / patent portfolio acquisition stated by Nebius

Nebius announced it licensed Clarifai inference IP and stated it will acquire Clarifai’s patent portfolio for AI inference and compute orchestration technologies, while integrating Clarifai’s core engineering and research talent into Nebius’s inference platform strategy.

Nebius
Oct 16, 2025
Clarifai Reasoning Engine launched for agentic AI inference

Clarifai introduced a “Clarifai Reasoning Engine” described as an end-to-end performance framework for agentic workloads.

Clarifai customers/developers building agentic AI workloads
Nov 01, 2024
Release 11.5: emphasis on multi-step goal-directed agentic AI development

Clarifai release notes describe Release 11.5 as enabling multi-step, goal-directed AI agents across Clarifai’s platform.

Clarifai platform users
Sep 01, 2024
Control Center positioning as a unified AI operational dashboard

Clarifai published an update on Control Center as the unified interface consolidating management activities.

Clarifai platform users
Nov 30, 2021
Release 7.11 (models and platform improvements)

Clarifai published Release 7.11 as a platform update with improvements and additional state-of-the-art models.

Clarifai developers
Apr 06, 2021
Product portfolio expansion for enterprise/public sector (press release)

Clarifai stated it expanded its AI product portfolio to serve a growing enterprise and public-sector customer base, positioned across CV and NLP and lifecycle tooling.

Enterprise and public sector customers