Twelve Labs

Twelve Labs builds multimodal AI models that understand video content — not just transcripts, but the visual elements, actions, objects, and context within video footage. The company's API enables developers to build applications that can search, analyze, classify, and generate insights from video at a level of understanding previously impossible.

The platform's video understanding capabilities go beyond speech-to-text, analyzing visual content to understand what is happening in a video, who appears, what objects are present, and how scenes relate to each other. This enables use cases like visual search across video libraries, automated content moderation, highlights generation, and contextual advertising.

Twelve Labs has raised over $22 million in funding and serves customers across media, sports, security, and e-commerce who need AI that truly comprehends video content. The company's foundation models are purpose-built for video understanding, offering capabilities that general-purpose LLMs cannot match for visual content analysis.