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Cision Canada
4 days ago
- Business
- Cision Canada
Clarifai Accelerates Agentic AI Development: MCP Server Hosting and OpenAI Compatibility Enable Smarter Agents, Faster Deployment
WASHINGTON, July 15, 2025 /CNW/ -- Clarifai, a global leader in AI and pioneer of the full-stack AI platform, announced a transformative suite of enhancements designed to fundamentally reshape how intelligent AI agents are built, deployed, and scaled. By integrating Model Context Protocol (MCP) server hosting with OpenAI-compatible APIs, Clarifai now offers an unparalleled combination that empowers developers and enterprises to create smarter, more capable AI agents at unprecedented speed and efficiency. Clarifai's commitment to Agentic AI stems from their vision for AI teams to create production Agentic AI quickly and seamlessly. This progression promises substantial gains in efficiency and innovation across industries, demanding robust computing power, efficient resource consumption, and sophisticated management. Clarifai's advanced compute orchestration solutions, which include the newly launched Local Runners, are engineered to ensure AI runs quickly, efficiently, and securely. A Dual Breakthrough: Smarter Agents, Faster Deployment The powerful synergy between Clarifai's new MCP Server Hosting and its OpenAI-compatible APIs addresses critical challenges in next-generation Agentic AI development: Empowering Smarter Agents with MCP Server Hosting: Clarifai now allows users to upload and host their own custom tools, functions, and APIs as an MCP server, making them callable by AI agents or models. This pivotal capability enables AI agents to seamlessly integrate proprietary business logic and real-time data directly into their operational intelligence. These custom components are fully hosted, versioned, and managed by Clarifai, providing agents with the ability to access unique, domain-specific information (e.g., a pricing calculator for an insurance agent) or proprietary internal systems. This capability represents unmatched flexibility and control, allowing users to host and run their custom tools as MCP servers anywhere—from a local machine to a private cloud infrastructure—and Clarifai stands out as the only platform currently offering this level of hardware-agnostic orchestration for agent-facing tools. Accelerating Deployment with OpenAI-Compatible APIs: With the introduction of OpenAI-compatible APIs, Clarifai significantly simplifies the integration process, enabling developers to integrate with over 100 open-source and third-party models from the Clarifai community by leveraging their existing clients and tools with minimal code changes. This eliminates friction, accelerates testing, and ensures instant interoperability with established tech stacks. Teams can now seamlessly switch to Clarifai's powerful Agentic AI models from familiar OpenAI API endpoints, preserving their existing tooling while potentially gaining enhanced accuracy, improved privacy, or reduced switching costs across different teams or models. Artjom Shestajev, Sr. Product Manager at Clarifai, spoke about the real-world impact: "This is a monumental step for Agentic AI. Our MCP server hosting unleashes a new level of agent intelligence, allowing them to directly interact with an organization's unique operational DNA and proprietary data sources. Paired with our OpenAI-compatible APIs, we're not just accelerating deployment; we're breaking down barriers, enabling developers to integrate these highly capable agents into their existing infrastructure almost instantly, driving rapid, impactful innovation." These features enhance Clarifai's existing Agent Toolkit Integrations, which provide out-of-the-box support for leading agent frameworks, including CrewAI, LangChain, LiteLLM, and Google ADK. This comprehensive approach allows users to build sophisticated agent workflows using their preferred tools, streamlining the entire journey from conception to production. Clarifai's continuous innovation in compute orchestration helps businesses significantly reduce operational costs by enabling AI models to be up to 10x more resource-efficient, while also providing enhanced security and control over their entire AI ecosystem. About Clarifai Clarifai is a global leader in AI and the pioneer of the full-stack AI platform that helps organizations, teams, and developers build, deploy, and operationalize AI at scale. Clarifai's cutting-edge AI platform supports today's modern AI technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs), Large Vision Models (LVMs), Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), automated data labeling, high-volume production inference, and more. Founded in 2013, Clarifai is available in cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments and has been used to build more than 1.5 million AI models with more than 400,000 users in 170 countries. Learn more at
Cision Canada
08-07-2025
- Business
- Cision Canada
Clarifai Unveils "AI Runners": Unmatched Flexibility for Local AI Deployment
WASHINGTON, July 8, 2025 /CNW/ -- Clarifai, a global leader in AI and pioneer of the full-stack AI platform, today announced the launch of AI Runners, a groundbreaking new offering designed to provide developers and MLOps engineers with uniquely flexible options for deploying and managing their AI models. AI Runners enables users to connect models running on their local machines or private servers directly to Clarifai's robust and scalable platform via a seamless, publicly accessible API, offering a "best of both worlds" solution for modern AI development. The rise of agentic AI, capable of "thinking for themselves," setting goals, using tools with protocols like MCP, and solving complex problems, is driving an unprecedented demand for computing power. AI Runners directly address this challenge by providing a cost-effective and secure solution for managing the escalating demands of modern AI workloads. "Agentic AI is driving significant compute demands, and AI Runners provide a practical, secure solution for every developer. It's essentially ngrok for AI models, letting you build on your current setup and keep your models exactly where you want them, yet still get all the power and robustness of Clarifai's API for your biggest agentic AI ideas," said Alfredo Ramos, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Clarifai. "Our goal is to make advanced AI development – from your first line of code to a deployed application – genuinely easier and more budget-friendly for creators everywhere." AI Runners offer distinct advantages for developers and enterprises: Unmatched Flexibility & Control: Clarifai is the only platform currently offering developers their models or MCP tools anywhere – on a local development machine, an on-premises server, or a private cloud cluster – and connect them to the Clarifai API without complex networking. This allows users to keep sensitive data and custom models within their own environment and leverage existing compute infrastructure without vendor lock-in. Supercharge Your Models with a World-Class Platform: AI Runners allow instant serving of custom models through Clarifai's scalable, publicly accessible API, enabling integration into any application. Users can build complex multi-step AI workflows by chaining local models with thousands of models available on the Clarifai platform, all managed and monitored from a unified dashboard. A Streamlined and Economical Path to Production: Simplify the development workflow, making powerful AI development accessible and cost-effective by starting locally, and then scaling seamlessly to production in Kubernetes-based compute clusters on Clarifai. With a straightforward onboarding process and transparent pricing, allowing users to start small and scale their operations as needed. Customers can save even further by leveraging Clarifai's Compute Orchestration in multiple clouds and on-premise Kubernetes clusters, which enables traffic-based autoscale to/from zero, batching of requests, spot instances, and GPU fractioning so you can run more AI workloads on the same hardware. Pricing & Availability: Clarifai is introducing a new Developer Plan at a promotional price of $1 per month for the first year (standard price: $10 per month). This plan empowers developers to utilize AI Runners and provides access to hundreds of the latest AI models available on the Clarifai platform to create sophisticated AI workloads. Clarifai AI Runners are available now. For more information and to get started, visit the Clarifai website. About Clarifai Clarifai is a global leader in AI and the pioneer of the full-stack AI platform that helps organizations, teams, and developers build, deploy, and operationalize AI at scale. Clarifai's cutting-edge AI platform supports today's modern AI technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs), Large Vision Models (LVMs), Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), automated data labeling, high-volume production inference, and more. Founded in 2013, Clarifai is available in cloud, on-premises, or hybrid environments and has been used to build more than 1.5 million AI models with more than 400,000 users in 170 countries. Learn more at
Cision Canada
28-05-2025
- Business
- Cision Canada
Clarifai Wins 2025 AI TechAward for Compute Orchestration
WASHINGTON, May 28, 2025 /CNW/ -- Clarifai, a global leader in AI and pioneer of the full-stack AI platform, announced it has won the prestigious 2025 AI TechAward in the AI Development Framework category for its Compute Orchestration offering. This annual award program celebrates outstanding design, engineering, and innovation in developer technology across 20 categories. Clarifai's Compute Orchestration was selected by the independent, expert-led DevNetwork Advisory Board based on criteria including technical innovation, attracting notable industry attention and awareness, and general regard and use by the developer, engineering, and IT communities. The award highlights Clarifai's leading role in the growth and innovation across the software industry. "Developer tools & technology are leading the way for software developers and engineers to build the global technology ecosystem. Clarifai's win showcases their leading role in the growth and innovation across the software industry," said Jonathan Pasky, Executive Producer of DevNetwork, producer of AI DevSummit, and the 2025 AI TechAwards. Clarifai's Compute Orchestration enables organizations to deploy any AI model on any compute, at any scale. The platform supports closed, open-source, and custom models across various environments, including cloud, on-premises, air-gapped, and SaaS. Notably, Clarifai is the only platform designed to run all AI operations fully on-premises, offering complete control and security. It is truly vendor agnostic, supporting deployment on any hardware vendor like NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, and any cloud environment. "Winning the 2025 AI TechAward for Compute Orchestration is a significant validation of our platform's ability to solve critical challenges in AI deployment at scale," said Matt Zeiler, Ph.D., Founder and CEO of Clarifai. "Our Compute Orchestration is built to provide enterprises with the flexibility, control, and cost efficiency needed to operationalize AI quickly and securely, regardless of their infrastructure." Optimizing compute resources is a core capability of Clarifai's platform, with features such as GPU fractioning, batching, and dynamic autoscaling ensuring optimal resource utilization. These capabilities help organizations reduce compute costs by up to 90%, and demonstrate efficiency like a 3.7x reduction in compute usage from model packing. The platform also delivers high performance and reliability, supporting over 1.6 million requests per second. With over a decade of experience scaling massive AI workloads and pioneering compute innovations, Clarifai empowers enterprise and government teams to achieve their AI goals. Clarifai will be formally presented with its 2025 AI TechAward during AI DevSummit 2025, which will take place in San Francisco, CA, on May 28-29 and Live Online on June 4-5. To learn more about Clarifai's Compute Orchestration, visit About Clarifai Clarifai is a global leader in AI and the pioneer of the full-stack AI lifecycle and orchestration platform that helps organizations create and control AI workloads on any environment with a unified platform. With over a decade of experience supporting millions of custom models and billions of operations for the largest enterprises and governments, Clarifai pioneered compute innovations like custom scheduling, batching, GPU fractioning, and autoscaling. Clarifai empowers users to efficiently run any model, anywhere, at any scale. Learn more at
Cision Canada
20-05-2025
- Business
- Cision Canada
Clarifai Joins Vultr Cloud Alliance to Deliver Scalable, Cost-Optimized, Full-Stack AI
WASHINGTON, May 20, 2025 /CNW/ -- Clarifai, a global leader in AI and pioneer of the full-stack AI platform, today announced it has joined the Vultr Cloud Alliance. This collaboration enables enterprises to build, deploy, and scale AI workloads with enhanced flexibility and control over performance, governance, and cost, leveraging Clarifai's platform and Vultr's global high-performance cloud infrastructure. The collaboration brings together Clarifai's full-stack AI platform, which covers everything from model development to deployment and governance, with Vultr's global reach, security, regulatory compliance (including HIPAA, SOC 2+, and more), and operational excellence. Vultr's infrastructure includes high-performance CPUs, managed Kubernetes through Vultr Kubernetes Engine (VKE), managed databases like Apache ® Kafka, scalable storage, bare metal servers, and a wide choice of the latest AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, offering optimal price-to-performance. Together, Clarifai and Vultr offer organizations the ability to run any model in any environment with complete control over performance, governance, and offering up to 90% cost savings. "Combining capabilities with these leading industry partners means customers can now deploy and manage their AI workloads efficiently across Vultr's global cloud, gaining full control over costs and performance while getting access to a broader range of GPUs", said Alfredo Ramos, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Clarifai. "This is about enabling all clouds, all compute, and all AI models on one platform." By working together, joint Clarifai and Vultr customers can save at least 70% on the costs of the NVIDIA A100 80 GB compared to hyperscalers, with potential for greater savings through a longer-term commitment. Customers can purchase single A100 GPUs or in blocks of 8 GPUs. Key highlights of the partnership include: Any AI Model, Any GPU: Users can deploy any open-source, foundation, or custom AI model, including Clarifai's own, across Vultr's extensive GPU lineup, such as AMD Instinct ™ MI300X, MI325X, and NVIDIA HGX ™ B200, HGX ™ H100, A100 PCIe, and L40S. This allows optimization for performance, power efficiency, or cost, supporting AI workloads from inference to fine-tuning. Unified Compute Orchestration: Clarifai's compute orchestration allows deploying any model in a secure, scalable, containerized environment managed via a single interface. Models are deployed across Vultr resources using managed Kubernetes clusters or bare metal servers, with dynamic provisioning and automatic scaling via Vultr Kubernetes Engine (VKE). Built-in governance provides centralized visibility over performance, cost, and access, simplifying AI operations and improving efficiency. Edge AI Capabilities: Clarifai's edge AI platform enables deploying lightweight, high-performance models directly to edge devices, including air-gapped and offline environments. Combined with Vultr's global footprint of 32 data center regions reaching 90% of the global population with low latency (2-40 ms), this delivers real-time intelligence at the data source. This is particularly valuable for use cases like predictive maintenance, industrial quality control, public safety, and content moderation. "Our partnership with Clarifai is exactly what the Vultr Cloud Alliance is all about—bringing together best-of-breed technologies to give customers real choice, real performance, and real value. Clarifai's full-stack AI platform paired with Vultr's global GPU infrastructure means organizations can build and deploy AI models faster, scale efficiently, and reduce cost. It's a practical, high-impact solution for teams looking to take control of their AI workloads—whether in the cloud, at the edge, or across hybrid environments." said Kevin Cochrane, Chief Marketing Officer, Vultr. Joint solutions are applicable across various industries, including: Energy, Aerospace, and Manufacturing: Implement predictive maintenance and improve asset management using AI for visual inspection, edge AI, and global infrastructure. Media and Entertainment: Accelerate AI workloads for content moderation, metadata generation, and asset management on GPU instances. Leverage real-time image, video, and document analysis and state-of-the-art AI models for full motion video and sports analytics. Defense and Public Safety: Deploy AI models for security surveillance, object detection, and domain awareness in secure, air-gapped, or edge environments. Organizations ready to enhance their AI deployments can get started today at preferential pricing. Reserve their GPU cluster via: For more information on the Vultr Cloud Alliance, visit here. About Clarifai Clarifai is a global leader in AI and the pioneer of the full-stack AI lifecycle and orchestration platform that helps organizations create and control AI workloads on any environment with a unified platform. With over a decade of experience supporting millions of custom models and billions of operations for the largest enterprises and governments, Clarifai pioneered compute innovations like custom scheduling, batching, GPU fractioning, and autoscaling. Clarifai empowers users to efficiently run any model, anywhere, at any scale. Learn more at About Vultr Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world's largest privately held cloud infrastructure company. Learn more at
Associated Press
29-01-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
WoodWing launches new Integrations Marketplace to enhance content and information management
/ -- WoodWing, a global leader in content management solutions, proudly announces the launch of the WoodWing Integrations Marketplace, a comprehensive hub designed to connect WoodWing products with industry-leading applications. This marketplace empowers businesses to enhance collaboration, automate processes, and optimize content management workflows with ease. 'The launch of the WoodWing Integrations Marketplace marks a significant milestone in our mission to provide seamless and efficient content and information management operations for our customers,' says Jeff Gapp, Product Manager at WoodWing. 'By offering a diverse range of Integrations, we are enabling businesses to connect their favorite tools effortlessly and unlock new possibilities.' The WoodWing Integrations Marketplace debuts with a robust lineup of integrations tailored to meet the evolving needs of businesses. Key integrations include: - AI Tagging with Clarifai, enabling users to leverage AI-powered image tagging with the ability to implement custom models for enhanced metadata accuracy and streamlined asset organization. - Visual Search, improving asset discoverability by identifying similar images, finding different angles, and removing duplicates, making it easier to manage large asset libraries. - Power BI, providing the tools to transform content data into actionable insights with interactive dashboards and reports, enabling data-driven decision-making. How can customers benefit from WoodWing's integrations marketplace? - Simplified Implementation – Deploy integrations quickly with minimal technical setup. - Scalable Solutions – Expand their content and information management ecosystem to meet growing demands. - Automated Workflows – Reduce manual processes and boost operational efficiency. - Continuous Innovation – Regular updates and new integrations to stay ahead in a dynamic market. The Integrations Marketplace allows businesses to explore the full range of integrations and discover how they can streamline content workflows. It is now live and available to customers worldwide. PR WoodWing YouTube Legal Disclaimer:
