Video is becoming the dominant digital medium of our time, making up 82% of internet traffic and powering applications in media, communications, VR, gaming, and robotics. However the rich, temporal nature of it often makes video difficult to process or understand in the ways these applications need to.

The Sieve developer platform is a set of APIs that can process, understand, and manipulate video in a variety of ways. If you’re building complex workflows for analyzing, editing, searching, or filtering video, Sieve manages core pipelines for these tasks so you don’t have to build and maintain all the complexity yourself.

Our ultimate goal is to accelerate every application of video — from AI filmmaking to media translation, virtual assistants, generative games, humanoid robots, transportation, and more. We believe the best way to do this is by building the best AI systems for working with it.

Our plan

Through years of iteration, it has become clear to us that the most important set of problems to solve first are extremely specific video understanding problems: zero-shot object detection, active speaker tracking, background noise separation, speech transcription, scene detection, etc. Solving these problems well and building flexible interfaces around them makes it easier to then do one of two things:

  1. solve more domain-specific tasks by stringing these capabilities together
  2. curate high-quality internet datasets that make AI models perform better at new tasks

Our current focus is in building performant video understanding primitives, exposing them to developers via simple APIs, and then applying them to large corpuses of the internet. Once we do this well, we believe we’ll have built a great foundation of tools that can be applied to any domain of video — whether it be through pipelines we build to solve more domain-specific problems or models we train to solve more specific tasks at higher quality.

Our progress

We’ve scaled to millions in recurring revenue as a relatively small team. Our APIs already power core features in some of the most popular creative and social video platforms in the world, and are also helping research teams collect & annotate large datasets to train better video models.

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Everyone at Sieve cares deeply about the work they do. You will enjoy working here if you: