Reka AI

Overview Reka AI is the frontier AI lab that has done something almost no other lab of its size has done — built a genuinely competitive multimodal foundation model family from scratch, in the open, with a team small enough to fit in a single conference room. Founded in 2022 by ex DeepMind, ex Google Brain, and ex Meta researchers — the founding team includes Yi Tay, Dani Yogatama, and Aitor Lewkowycz, all of whom shipped meaningful research at the top tier labs before leaving to start Reka — the company has bases in Singapore and the San Francisco Bay Area and has stayed deliberately independent through 2026 rather than getting absorbed into a hyperscaler. The one line positioning: Reka is the frontier multimodal AI lab to pick when you need a model that understands video, image, and audio as first class inputs, when you need private deployment, and when you value working with a lab whose entire research bet is native multimodality rather than a text model with vision bolted on. The Reka Core, Reka Flash, and Reka Edge models — spanning frontier, fast serving, and on device tiers — are among the very few multimodal families in 2026 that were designed multimodal from day one rather than fine tuned into vision. For enterprises building video first, image first, or audio first products — content moderation, video search, media asset management, retail visual analytics, healthcare imaging, autonomous systems — Reka is genuinely the right technical answer more often than…