Reka Vision

Reka Vision: Intelligence Made Visible

In today's data-rich environment, enterprises and consumers generate vast quantities of multimedia data—from social media content and product advertisements to corporate videos and security footage. This valuable data often remains unstructured, unsearchable, and consequently, underutilized. Reka Vision, a platform designed for visual understanding and search, serves as a powerful intelligence layer, transforming this raw data into deep insights and actions.

Key Applications

Reka Vision empowers users with a diverse range of capabilities, including:

Precise Content Discovery: Efficiently search for specific moments within millions of hours of video or billions of images.

Automated Content Curation: Transform long videos into social media reels or product highlights.

Real-time Incident Monitoring: Trigger immediate alerts for critical events in physical security.

Comprehensive Video Analysis: Obtain answers to specific questions or generate detailed summaries from lengthy videos.

Enhanced Advertising Placement: Use contextual understanding to optimize the placement of advertisements within videos.

Core Components

Reka Vision is built upon three atomic modules: Watch, Search, and Chat. They can be seamlessly orchestrated by a model planner to automate complex workflows.

Watch: When a video or an image is uploaded, our proprietary algorithm analyzes the scenes, processes audio, and interprets any visible text. This is a one-time process. Reka Vision stores it in a memory module that retains this comprehensive understanding until instructed to delete the memory. Furthermore, our algorithms can be customized to prioritize attention to specific elements, such as the number of objects, country flags, or the appearance of particular text.

Search: Use natural language to conduct highly specific searches for moments of interest. Reka Vision's advanced capabilities allow users to search for complex activities and events that unfold over extended periods, such as "baking a bread," "assembling a desk," or "fighting in a hallway."

Chat: Interact with your multimodal assets using natural language queries to retrieve precise information or instruct Reka Vision to generate a summary report. Our robust temporal understanding enables users to ask questions referencing absolute or relative timestamps within long videos (e.g., "minute one," "minute two to three," "beginning of the video").

Reka Vision in Action

Our partners are already experiencing the transformative benefits of Reka Vision:

Reka Vision for Creators: Streamlining Video Production: Leading content creators use Reka Vision to efficiently generate short clips and compilation highlights from their longer YouTube videos. Our simple video editing software streamlines the process, allowing creators to select key moments through natural language prompts or via AI automation. This intelligent workflow significantly reduces manual editing time from hours to minutes, enabling creators to focus on their craft.

Live Monitoring and Analysis of CCTV Footage: Turing partners with Reka to develop an agentic surveillance software—Guardian AI—with Reka Vision. Their solution goes beyond traditional video security systems, enabling searching for a multitude of complex security events, setting up smart alerts, and generating detailed incident summaries. Turing's agentic software is already being used by law enforcement officers in the United States.

Experience Reka Vision Today

We invite you to explore Reka Vision firsthand here.

For Enterprises: Organizations interested in integrating Reka Vision can contact us for deployment options, including API access or on-premise solutions with customization support.

For Creators: Discover how Reka Vision for Creators can revolutionize your content creation workflow in this video. Please share your feedback or feature requests either directly on the platform or by joining our Discord.

For Developers: Reka Vision is accessible as a collection of APIs and MCPs. Developers who are interested in building agents with cutting-edge visual understanding capabilities can connect with us on Discord. We also offer free API credits for selected projects.

Reka: Multimodal AI You Can Deploy Anywhere

Reka is an AI research and product company focused on building state-of-the-art multimodal models and AI-powered applications. Founded by Dani Yogatama and his team, Reka trains its own foundation models and develops products that enable enterprises to integrate AI seamlessly into their workflows. The company is best known for its model releases—Reka Edge, Flash, and Core—as well as its enterprise AI platforms, Nexus and Guardian, which are currently in private beta.

Reka's models excel at multimodal understanding—particularly extraction of any multimodal data into structured outputs—and agentic reasoning. They have the capabilities to plan, use tools, verify their execution steps, and learn from user feedback. All of Reka's public models—Reka Spark, Reka Edge, Reka Flash, and Reka Core—have the same set of capabilities. They are trained the same way and all of them have full multimodal inputs. They are only different in model sizes.

In practice, Reka's models are used for information extraction from PDF documents, real-time video analysis, generating metadata to improve search from images and videos, and creating an interactive gaming experience, among others. Reka's solutions are powered by novel multimodal transformers built from scratch. From atomic elements to adaptive modules, Reka solves complexity by design—composing intelligence one problem, one connection at a time.

Reka's models are available for use, and many components are open-sourced, allowing for integration into personal or commercial projects. Reka stands out due to its focus on multimodal capabilities, open-source transparency, and a strong community-driven approach, enabling users to build and innovate collaboratively.

Reka's models are designed for high performance, privacy, and cost efficiency, making them a compelling alternative in the rapidly evolving foundation model space. Reka's customers range from large enterprises to small and medium businesses in domains such as finance, media and entertainment, gaming, ecommerce, and government organizations. Some of them benefit from base models that Reka develops, while others use Reka's end-to-end platform to automate functions within their organizations. They work with Reka because they care about model performance, privacy, and cost-efficiency.

Reka is an AI research and product company. We are a full-stack company that trains our own models and develops applications. Most people know us from our model releases last year—Reka Edge, Flash and Core. On the research side, our focus is on multimodal agentic reasoning. On the product side, we develop Nexus—a platform for organizations to create and manage AI workers—and Guardian, a real-time video monitoring system. Both are currently available in private beta. We cannot wait to share them with the general public soon.

We started Reka because we believe in the transformative power of AI. Our primary goal is to ensure that this technology benefits as many people as possible. We believe Reka is the best vehicle for us to make the highest impact. At a personal level, we also wanted to try something different after being in a big tech company for a long time. We are very much enjoying the journey so far.

What sets Reka apart from other players in the foundation model space?

We do not think that we need tens of billions of dollars to push the boundaries of AI capabilities. We are reasonably well capitalized to pursue our goals, but we do not have as much resource as larger companies that have hundreds of thousands of GPUs to train models. As a result, our focus from the beginning has been on efficient training and serving infrastructure and a small number of focused-research bets.

Today, we have a training infrastructure that allows us to train large-scale multimodal models efficiently. All of our models are trained from scratch for less than $10 million and they perform competitively on benchmark numbers. Most of our algorithmic breakthroughs are in post-training, leveraging our expertise in reinforcement learning and imitation learning.

Talk to us about your users today. Who is finding the most value in Reka?

Our customers range from large enterprises to small and medium businesses in domains such as finance, media and entertainment, gaming, ecommerce, and government organizations. Some of them benefit from base models that we develop, while others use our end-to-end platform to automate functions within their organizations. They work with us because they care about model performance, privacy, and cost-efficiency.

Walk us through Reka Core, Flash and Edge. Which existing use-case for Reka has worked best?

Our models excel at multimodal understanding—particularly extraction of any multimodal data into structured outputs—and agentic reasoning. They have the capabilities to plan, use tools, verify their execution steps, and learn from user feedback.

All of our public models—Reka Spark, Reka Edge, Reka Flash, and Reka Core—have the same set of capabilities. They are trained the same way and all of them have full multimodal inputs. They are only different in model sizes.

In practice, they are used for information extraction from PDF documents, real-time video analysis, generating metadata to improve search from images and videos, and creating an interactive gaming experience, among others.

Given the excitement around new trends in AI such as Agents and Multimodal AI, how does this factor into your product vision for Reka?

Multimodal has been a core thesis since the beginning of Reka. We are one of the first companies (alongside Google) that offer full multimodal capabilities including text, images, video, and audio. Today, we are proud to serve one of the best multimodal models on the market. We believe our visual understanding capabilities are state-of-the-art.

In terms of agents, we think it is a natural evolution of the technology. The first wave of AI is centered around chatbots. As the models become better, we expect them to do more things for us beyond answering questions. We actually think the term ``agents'' is heavily overused right now. A lot of people call their AI systems agentic even though they only use orchestration that combines a few models to produce an output. Those systems, while useful, are not agentic systems. For us, an agent has to interact with an environment, take actions, and accomplish tasks.

Last year, we were focusing on producing multimodal agentic base models that serve as a foundation for our product offerings. Over the past several months, in addition to continuing to improve the base models, we have expanded our product team to provide a more seamless end-to-end experience. Our goal is to not only provide base models, but also full applications with delightful user experience to interact with powerful AI. We think there are a lot of opportunities to innovate in this space.

How do you see Reka's product progressing over the next 6-12 months?

We think we are entering an exciting time where AI models are starting to be deployed in production to solve many real-world problems. In addition, the cost of developing these models continues to go down. We have shown how and will continue to develop cost-efficient state-of-the-art models to support our products. As a full stack company that has the expertise to train models and develop applications, we are well positioned to deliver the highest values for our customers.

In the short term, we have a few exciting launches. We are excited about introducing Nexus to the public. It is a platform for organizations to create and manage AI workers to automate repetitive tasks and streamline operations. Nexus offers seamless integration with internal data, flexible and secure deployment, and a no-code user interface that supports easy creation of these workers. In addition, we will launch Guardian, a video monitoring product built on top of our models that allows users to detect complex events in real-time. Both of these products are built on top of our proprietary models.

On the research side, we continue to invest on multimodal agentic reasoning. We focus our efforts on reinforcement learning, self play, imitation learning, and multi-agent learning. We have a few technical breakthroughs that underpin Nexus and Guardian which we intend to share more broadly when we can.

What has been the toughest technical challenge around building Reka into the platform it is today?

Building large-scale training infrastructure. People tend to underestimate the optimization that is needed to do it at scale, whether that is for multimodal data processing, pre-training, or post training. A good and robust infrastructure is critical to iterate on ideas to develop our products quickly. We invested heavily in this at the beginning and are now in a good position to continue to benefit from it.

Lastly, how would you describe the culture at Reka? Are you hiring, and what do you look for in prospective team members?

Yes, we are hiring and have many open roles. We believe that it takes a collection of world-class individuals working together towards a common goal to make meaningful contributions in AI in this era. Beyond the necessary technical skills to contribute to our mission, you need to have the right characters to succeed at a startup. It is a high-pressure environment with lots of ups and downs. Resilience and perseverance are as important as engineering skills.

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