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New York-based Clarifai was founded in 2013 by Matt Zeiler whose interest in the technology was sparked by a video of a flickering flame that he saw while an undergraduate at the University of Toronto. The movement of that flame was not created by human code, but by a computer that had used video data to determine a pattern. Clarifai's Offerings In 2013, Zeiler was finishing his Ph.D in AI at New York University (NYU), when he received impressive employment offers from names like Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook. Instead of choosing any of those, Zeiler decided to set up his own shop – and, Clarifai was born. Zeiler became interested in the AI technology when he was shown an AI-created video by a fellow grad student. He used his coding capabilities and pursued his interest in the field by coming to NYU for his Ph.D. In 2013, he built an image-recognition algorithm and tested it successfully in the ImageNet contest. Zeiler continued to improve his code to create a

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