Research notes and perspectives from the Primate Intelligence team.https://primateintelligence.ai/en-ushttps://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-aws-rekognition/https://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-aws-rekognition/AWS closed Rekognition streaming to new customers on April 30, 2026 — its own migration advice is to snapshot frames into the image API. Here's what remains, what Bedrock Nova actually offers, and the honest head-to-head against a real-time verdict API.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonsCloud VisionMatt Miesniekshttps://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-azure-video-indexer/https://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-azure-video-indexer/Azure Video Indexer is a genuinely good archive-enrichment product — thirty insight types, far cheaper per hour than us. But it's a catalog, not an answer: no live-stream API, no way to ask your own question of the pixels, no verdict. Here's the honest head-to-head.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonsCloud VisionMatt Miesniekshttps://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-gemini/https://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-gemini/Gemini is the strongest general-purpose video model you can rent — and at 1fps it's dramatically cheaper than us. But its live video input is spec-capped at 1fps JPEG stills with 2-minute sessions and a compounding token meter. Here's the honest head-to-head.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonsLLMsMatt Miesniekshttps://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-google-video-intelligence/https://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-google-video-intelligence/Google Video Intelligence is the cheapest serious way to bulk-annotate stored video — with a real SLA and a generous free tier. It's also a pre-LLM product whose release notes end in 2021, with no prompt parameter anywhere in the API. Here's the honest head-to-head.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonsCloud VisionMatt Miesniekshttps://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-nvidia-vss/https://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-nvidia-vss/NVIDIA VSS is the strongest self-hosted real-time video-analytics stack — and by NVIDIA's own docs, it's a reference architecture you must build and operate, not a product you can buy. Here's the honest head-to-head against a managed API.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonsInfrastructureMatt Miesniekshttps://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-open-vlms/https://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-open-vlms/Qwen3-VL, InternVL, LLaVA, Moondream — open VLMs are excellent, improving quarterly, and free to download. But the weights are not the product. No open model ships streaming ingest, calibrated verdicts, evidence artifacts, or a published latency number. Here's the honest math.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonsOpen SourceMatt Miesniekshttps://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-openai/https://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-openai/OpenAI ships the best general-purpose visual reasoning on the planet — for still images. There is no video input path in any OpenAI API, and the only video product they had shuts down September 2026. Here's the honest head-to-head between a video-native API and a frame stack.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonsLLMsMatt Miesniekshttps://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-roboflow-ultralytics/https://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-roboflow-ultralytics/Roboflow + Ultralytics is the best per-frame object-detection stack in the world — 1.7ms YOLO inference, twenty edge formats, pennies per camera-hour at scale. But detections aren't answers. Here's the honest head-to-head between perception and judgment.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonsComputer VisionMatt Miesniekshttps://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-sieve/https://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-sieve/If you're comparing us against Sieve's video-processing API in 2026, there's news you may have missed: that API no longer exists. Sieve pivoted to selling training data to frontier labs. Here's what happened, what they sell now, and what to use instead.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonsMarket AnalysisMatt Miesniekshttps://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-twelve-labs/https://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-twelve-labs/Twelve Labs leads semantic search over stored video archives. Primate Vision watches video live and returns deterministic verdicts with evidence. These are genuinely different products — here's the honest head-to-head, with receipts.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonsVideo SearchMatt Miesniekshttps://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-video-ai-landscape-2026/https://primateintelligence.ai/blog/primate-vision-vs-video-ai-landscape-2026/In 2026 the managed real-time video-analysis lane emptied out. Here's the full map of what's left — batch indexers, 1fps token meters, and self-hosted stacks — with receipts, honest pricing math, and who should choose whom.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonsMarket AnalysisMatt Miesniekshttps://primateintelligence.ai/blog/darwin-video-jepa-benchmarks/https://primateintelligence.ai/blog/darwin-video-jepa-benchmarks/Language models had their GPT moment. Vision, especially video, hasn’t yet!Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchBenchmarksJEPAMehdi Nikkhahhttps://primateintelligence.ai/blog/benchmarks-deep-dive/https://primateintelligence.ai/blog/benchmarks-deep-dive/Our full benchmark methodology, numbers against YOLO / SAM / VLM baselines, and the rig we ran them on. In production — publishing ahead of public launch.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchPrimate Intelligencehttps://primateintelligence.ai/blog/how-jepa-works/https://primateintelligence.ai/blog/how-jepa-works/Why we build on Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures instead of pixel-space reconstruction. The deep dive is in production — publishing ahead of public launch.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchJEPAPrimate Intelligence