Aviary is a new AI-based video search software, that makes searching through and understanding millions of videos easy. We are currently working with some of the world's largest content providers to make their video collections searchable, automatically, and to help them understand their video data.

The founding team comes from Snapchat, Notion, Pinterest, CMU, University of Toronto, with extensive background in multimodal machine learning and in building search systems at scale.
AI-based video search and understanding on large video collections.
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### Automated Scale AI for Video

Hi, we're Aviary. We are the automated Scale AI for video understanding. Our software understands video content as well as any human, allowing millions of videos to be annotated and analyzed in a fraction of the time and cost it would take a human. The founding team comes from Snapchat, Notion, Pinterest, CMU, University of Toronto, with extensive background in multimodal machine learning and in building search systems at scale.



Aviary

Founded:2024

Team Size:4

Location:San Francisco

### Active Founders

### Amy Xiao, Founder

Co-founder & CEO at Aviary. ex Snapchat, Arize AI, AWS I’ve been in ML since 2016, starting as one of the first 10 hires at Borealis AI as an ML Research Engineer. At Snap, I helped build the ML infrastructure on the Perception team, where we delivered Scan, a real-time visual search product. Most recently, as an ML Solutions Architect at Arize, I worked with top ML teams, across tech and Fortune 200 companies, to advise on observing LLMs/ML models in production and land deals.



### Edward Zhou, Founder

Cofounder & CTO @ Aviary. ex @ Notion, Pinterest At Notion, I founded the search team with a coworker in 2021, and later on went to lead search ranking and ML infra across the company. Also did lots of large scale search infra (\>50b docs) & some product eng (Notion comments) At Pinterest, I led a team to build a 0-1 ads optimization recommendation system. Also worked on ML serving and realtime infra powering our billion+ dollar ads system, and built a few 0-1 mobile and web ad products.



### Company Launches

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🚀 **TLDR:**
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We make it painless for companies with large amounts of video to search through and understand their millions of videos.

All of this is done without ever needing to tag or label videos.

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❌ **The Problem:**
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Many companies are sitting on massive amounts of video content without an easy way to search, analyze, organize, or moderate them.

Currently, the only way to search and understand videos is by tagging or labeling videos. Companies spend hundreds of thousands of dollars annually on maintaining these tagging systems and workforces, and still struggle to keep up with their ever-growing video volume.

Tagging is not only expensive and time-consuming, but it’s also limited in what it can reveal about a video and requires you to know the right keywords in advance.

✅ **The Solution:**
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Aviary is AI-based software that understands the content of each video as well as a human does. For the first time, there’s a way to computationally keep up with your video growth.

Aviary empowers organizations with large video collections to:

*   Automatically enable video search across millions of videos
*   Search for specific videos and sub-clips with queries, just like you would describe a video to another person
*   Rapidly curate video datasets on any category and share them—no tagging needed in advance
*   Analyze and generate reports on your video content

We are ushering in a new era where labeling will never be needed again.

**🦄 Team**
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We are a team of infrastructure engineers, machine learning researchers, and artists from organizations like Snapchat, Notion, Pinterest, CMU, and the University of Toronto.

We believe the best way to utilize AI is to serve our creative potential, and we are on a mission to make these capabilities accessible to all!

**👋 Book a Demo**
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If you’re a company or marketplace that works with a lot of videos and would like:

*   An automated video search system that can handle millions of videos
*   Reporting and analytics on your video collection
*   To rapidly curate video datasets
*   Video content moderation

Book a demo with us today [hello@aviaryhq.com](mailto:hello@aviaryhq.com)!

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