AI platform firm Clarifai has launched AI Runners, an providing designed to present 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 non-public servers on to Clarifai’s AI platform through a publicly accessible API, the corporate mentioned. Noting the rise of agentic AI, Clarifai mentioned AI Runners present an economical, safe answer 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 maintain your fashions precisely the place you need them, but nonetheless get all the facility and robustness of Clarifai’s API in 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 non-public cloud cluster. Connection to the Clarifai API then may be completed with out advanced networking, the corporate mentioned. This implies customers can maintain delicate information and customized fashions inside their very own surroundings and leverage present compute infrastructure with out vendor lock-in. AI Runners allow serving of customized fashions via the Clarifai’s publicly accessible API, enabling integration into any software. Customers can construct multi-step AI workflows by chaining native fashions with 1000’s of fashions out there on the Clarifai platform.