Top 5 Cognitive API startups in USA
May 16, 2026
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Funding: $451M
SoundHound develops a platform for creating voice-enabled AI agents for customer service, sales and marketing, IT service management. Its proprietary automatic speech recognition (ASR) model Polaris is designed with acoustics in mind for noisy environments and can be customized to the unique context of a business. The platform integrates with any LLM and uses proprietary real-time speech-to-meaning and deep understanding technology, which can be integrated into business services and devices. SoundHound is also known for its music recognition apps, Chat AI personal voice assistant, and Amelia automated customer support platform.
SoundHound develops a platform for creating voice-enabled AI agents for customer service, sales and marketing, IT service management. Its proprietary automatic speech recognition (ASR) model Polaris is designed with acoustics in mind for noisy environments and can be customized to the unique context of a business. The platform integrates with any LLM and uses proprietary real-time speech-to-meaning and deep understanding technology, which can be integrated into business services and devices. SoundHound is also known for its music recognition apps, Chat AI personal voice assistant, and Amelia automated customer support platform.
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Funding: $100M
Clarifai provides organizations with a cloud platform for developing and monitoring AI models. It enables unified system for quickly creating, managing and coordinating AI workflows across the entire organization. It allows to optimize computing resources across computing providers and control AI-expenses more effectively. The company has developed proprietary GPU acceleration technology that delivers an optimal balance of speed and price. Clarifai's compute orchestration system is fully compatible with OpenAI, so clients can simply redirect existing applications to Clarifai and start saving. The platform also supports other models, such as DeepSeek, LLama, and custom enterprise models. Companies can also deploy MCP servers and edge-optimized models on Clarifai.
Clarifai provides organizations with a cloud platform for developing and monitoring AI models. It enables unified system for quickly creating, managing and coordinating AI workflows across the entire organization. It allows to optimize computing resources across computing providers and control AI-expenses more effectively. The company has developed proprietary GPU acceleration technology that delivers an optimal balance of speed and price. Clarifai's compute orchestration system is fully compatible with OpenAI, so clients can simply redirect existing applications to Clarifai and start saving. The platform also supports other models, such as DeepSeek, LLama, and custom enterprise models. Companies can also deploy MCP servers and edge-optimized models on Clarifai.
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Funding: $8M
CloudSight offers its computer vision API to developers who can utilize the same technology that is currently being used by Fortune 500 companies and major retailers.
CloudSight offers its computer vision API to developers who can utilize the same technology that is currently being used by Fortune 500 companies and major retailers.
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Funding: $5.2M
Sighthound develops smart surveillance software powered by Computer Vision, provides computer vision cloud API for developers and Vision SDK, accelerating third-party products with proprietary deeply-learned computer vision technology
Sighthound develops smart surveillance software powered by Computer Vision, provides computer vision cloud API for developers and Vision SDK, accelerating third-party products with proprietary deeply-learned computer vision technology
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Funding: $5M
TrueFace.Ai is a platform of facial recognition APIs powered by deep learning. It provides on-premise & Cloud Solutions for Face Recognition & Identity Verification
TrueFace.Ai is a platform of facial recognition APIs powered by deep learning. It provides on-premise & Cloud Solutions for Face Recognition & Identity Verification
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