Twelve Labs

Twelve Labs is a video understanding platform that enables developers and enterprises to search, analyze, and build applications on top of large-scale video content. Its core capability is multimodal video understanding, combining visual, audio, and text signals to generate rich, structured representations of video. Using these representations, users can perform semantic video search, content classification, summarization, and automated tagging without manually defining rules or relying solely on metadata.

Key features include natural language video search that allows users to find specific scenes or concepts by describing them in plain text, scene and object detection, action recognition, and temporal localization of events within long video streams. Twelve Labs also supports indexing of large video libraries, enabling fast retrieval across millions of clips, and can generate embeddings that integrate with existing data pipelines and vector databases.