Reintroducing Sieve
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How we went from video APIs to supplying multimodal data at petabyte-scale.
Sieve supplies multimodal data to many of the frontier AI labs, but that is not how we started. I wanted to share the path that got us here. Abhi and I started the company in 2022 building developer tools for computer vision. After several pivots, we landed on an API platform for video understanding and editing, with capabilities like auto-resizing, translation, scene detection, object tracking, speaker tracking, and more. By early 2025, we had real customers that included top creative tools, social platforms, and media companies using our APIs in production. Around that same time, we noticed
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