Hive

Hive is an American artificial intelligence company that specializes in cloud-based AI solutions designed to help businesses understand, search, and generate content at scale. Founded by Kevin Guo and Dmitriy Karpman, Hive is headquartered in San Francisco and has raised over $120 million in capital, achieving a valuation of around $2 billion as of 2021. The company operates with a distributed workforce of millions of contributors who label and annotate data to train its machine learning models. Hive offers a range of pre-trained AI models accessible via APIs, enabling enterprise customers to automate complex content-related tasks. Their services include automated content moderation, AI-generated content detection, contextual advertising, sponsorship measurement, and content understanding across various media types. Hive's models process billions of API requests monthly and are integrated by major companies such as Reddit, Walmart, NBCUniversal, and Disney. The company’s business model focuses on providing flexible API access to its AI capabilities, supported by a vast data labeling network that ensures high accuracy and continuous improvement of its models.