Axle AI Cloud Media Files Searchable with “Smarter Media” AI Search Service Powered by Backblaze

Axle AI, Inc. is launching Axle AI Cloud, an affordable AI-powered media storage service that is powered by storage cloud provider, Backblaze, Inc.

The service is available for beta testers effective immediately, with wider release expected within 60 days.

It allows media teams to search and reuse their cloud-based assets at a fraction of the price of other services on the market. Aimed at any organization managing large amounts of media – such as a broadcast network, film studio or corporate video team – this tool makes it easier to quickly identify and download the assets containing key content stored with Backblaze.

”I’m thrilled that we can now enable Axle.AI to offer their AI search functionality to a broad base of media customers by leveraging our new Powered By Backlaze program,” said Gleb Budman, CEO, Backblaze.

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Along with media searchability, Axle AI Cloud provides following features:

• Integrated multi-language transcription with language auto-detect

• Face recognition of over 5,000 global celebrities

• Object recognition of over 1,200 objects

• Logo recognition of over 300 global logos

• OCR for searching onscreen text

• H.264 proxy generation supporting playback in a browser front end

• Browser-based user interface for searching AI analysis and user tags

• Sophisticated browser-based review and approval tools

Sam Bogoch, CEO, Axle.AI, says: “We created this highly integrated solution because until as media usage has ballooned, cloud storage has become almost impossible to search for video teams. More importantly, we wanted to provide the service at a price that more businesses could afford. Every business should get to benefit from seamlessly searchable media – price should not be a barrier.”

Budman says: “Backblaze B2 helps nearly 100,000 businesses and individuals to store, protect, and use their data. I’m thrilled that we can now enable Axle.AI to offer their AI search functionality to a broad base of media customers by leveraging our new Powered By Backlaze program.”

Axle AI Cloud is being released in a beta program with signup requests. It is based on the Axle AI Platform architecture, a fundamentally open architecture that leverages state of the art AI capabilities including vector embeddings. With this technology, it’s possible to not only provide breakthrough search solutions, but also incorporate further search and processing tools from a variety of partners.