Hive (company)

Hive is an American artificial intelligence company offering deep learning models via APIs to enterprise customers.[1] Hive operates a distributed microtask platform to collect the training data that feeds into its models.[2]

Hive

Type	Private
Industry	Artificial Intelligence
Founders	Kevin Guo, Dmitriy Karpman
Headquarters	San Francisco, California
Website	thehive.ai

One of Hive's major offerings is to provide content moderation services based on machine learning.[3] Hive is reported to have been engaged to provide content moderation services to social news aggregator Reddit,[4] Giphy,[4] BeReal,[5] Donald Trump-affiliated social network Truth Social,[6] online chat website Chatroulette,[7] and video streaming platform Yubo.[8] Parler, after its shutdown by content service providers in early 2021 due to a lack of content moderation, integrated with Hive and was allowed back in the App Store.[9] A recent investigation into Tik Tok showed that Hive's age detection model has high accuracy on detecting the presence of minors in video content.[10] Hive's content moderation models have been leveraged widely in the livestreaming industry where the cost of human moderation is high.[11]

Hive also offers solutions in the media industry,[12] with its sponsorship models being featured in major events such as the Super Bowl[13][14][15] and March Madness,[16] and its contextual advertising models used by NBC Universal[17] and Vevo.[18] Hive has also established partnerships with Bain & Company[19] and Comscore[20] to sell to networks and advertisers.

In early 2023, Hive released an AI text classifier competitive with OpenAI's own AI text classifier.[21]

Hive was founded by Kevin Guo and Dmitriy Karpman, and in April 2021, announced $85M in new capital at a valuation of $2 billion.[1]