# Hive

> Hive is a San Francisco AI company that sells pre-trained machine learning models as APIs, focused on content moderation, AI-generated content detection, and visual understanding. Founded in 2013 by Kevin Guo and Dmitriy Karpman, Hive powers trust and safety at platforms like Reddit, BeReal, and Chatroulette, and runs deepfake detection contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security.

- **Founded:** 2013
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Kevin Guo (Co-founder & CEO), Dmitriy Karpman (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~500 employees plus ~700,000 distributed gig labelers via Hive Work
- **Products:** Visual Content Moderation API, Text Moderation API, AI-Generated & Deepfake Detection, Logo & Brand Detection, Moderation Dashboard
- **Notable:** Independent 2024 study named Hive the 'clear winner' in AI-generated image and video detection., Processes billions of API calls per month across customer platforms., Raised $155M+ total funding across rounds.

## Products & services

- **Visual Content Moderation API** — Classifies images and video across sexual, violent, drug, hate, and attribute categories for trust & safety teams.
- **Text Moderation API** — Flags sexual, hate, violence, bullying, promotional content, and external links in user-generated text.
- **AI-Generated & Deepfake Detection** — Identifies AI-generated or manipulated images, video, and audio with confidence scoring.
- **Logo & Brand Detection** — Finds and localizes logos in media for sponsorship measurement and brand safety.
- **Moderation Dashboard** — No-code interface for Trust & Safety teams to design custom moderation workflows.
- **Hive Work** — Distributed data-labeling app powering the training data behind Hive's models.

## Achievements

- Independent 2024 study named Hive the 'clear winner' in AI-generated image and video detection.
- Processes billions of API calls per month across customer platforms.
- Raised $155M+ total funding across rounds.
- Awarded DoD contract for deepfake detection in December 2024.

## Latest updates

- **2024-12** — Awarded U.S. Department of Defense contract for deepfake detection via the Defense Innovation Unit.
- **2024** — Independent benchmark study named Hive the top performer in AI-generated image and video detection.
- **2021-04** — Announced Series D funding round led by Glynn Capital.

## Links

- Website: https://thehive.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hiveai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/hive_ai
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/hiveglobal

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Last updated: 2026-05-19