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Twelve Labs is Building AI That Can Analyze and Search Through Videos

Users Can Search Through Videos for Specific Moments, Summarize Clips, or Ask Questions

AI models that understand videos as well as text can unlock powerful new applications. At least, that’s what Jae Lee, the co-founder of Twelve Labs, believes. Granted, Lee’s a little biased. Twelve Labs trains video-analyzing models for a range of use cases. But there may just be something to his assertion.

Using Twelve Labs’ models, users can search through videos for specific moments, summarize clips, or ask questions like “When did the person in the red shirt enter the restaurant?” It’s a powerful set of capabilities — which is perhaps why the company has attracted big-name backers, including Nvidia, Samsung, and Intel.