At Clarifai we strive to build the best AI APIs on the market. We strongly believe in good conventions and rapid iteration on features so that you can get the latest in AI into your applications. We have gone through a few iterations of our API server framework that handles the traffic to our customers. These iterations began in 2014 with a python based Django server that we called v1 of our API.

Clarifai API — the early days

The advantages of Django in the early days of Clarifai were that all our researchers and engineers used Python as our go-to language and Django was the…

Every day, more of our world is optimized through artificial intelligence. Self-driving cars, baby monitors, shopping recommendations, personal assistants — AI is well on its way to augmenting every part of our human experience. As a result, our lives have the potential to be better than they ever were before, with machines completing rote tasks and freeing up our time to engage in higher order pursuits.

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Over the last few years, we at Clarifai have immersed ourselves in the world of visual recognition AI. We created and mastered groundbreaking new technology, partnered with thousands of businesses and developers to create AI-powered solutions, and learned vital lessons from real users and customers that we’ve used to make our product better. You could say we’ve been neck-deep in deep learning…