AI platform firm Clarifai has launched AI Runners, an providing designed to provide builders and MLops engineers versatile choices for deploying and managing AI fashions.
Unveiled July 8, AI Runners let customers join fashions operating on native machines or personal servers on to Clarifai’s AI platform by way of a publicly accessible API, the corporate mentioned. Noting the rise of agentic AI, Clarifai mentioned AI Runners present a cheap, safe resolution for managing the escalating calls for of AI workloads, describing them as “basically ngrok for AI fashions, letting you construct in your present setup and hold your fashions precisely the place you need them, but nonetheless get all the facility and robustness of Clarifai’s API to your greatest agentic AI concepts.”
Clarifai mentioned its platform permits builders to run their fashions or MCP (Mannequin Context Protocol) instruments on an area growth machine, an on-premises server, or a personal cloud cluster. Connection to the Clarifai API then will be carried out with out advanced networking, the corporate mentioned. This implies customers can hold delicate information and customized fashions inside their very own atmosphere and leverage current compute infrastructure with out vendor lock-in. AI Runners allow serving of customized fashions by the Clarifai’s publicly accessible API, enabling integration into any utility. Customers can construct multi-step AI workflows by chaining native fashions with 1000’s of fashions accessible on the Clarifai platform.
