Cloudinary Labs

Where the Unexpected in Visual Experiences is Unleashed

As new technologies emerge and companies look to improve the ways in which they create and share visual content that connects with their audiences, Cloudinary Labs offers a space to explore and experiment with innovative concepts, from new image formats and video technologies driven by artificial intelligence to new approaches to developer coding. We invite you to play and share feedback on our experiments and help us elevate these technologies and new capabilities from the outer-edges to the center of the digital world.

Featured Project

Introducing MediaFlows

Check out how you can build flexible media applications using drag and drop tools alongside custom code to craft and iterate prototypes and go live quickly.

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Projects

Introducing MediaFlows

Check out how you can build flexible media applications using drag and drop tools alongside custom code to craft and iterate prototypes and go live quickly.

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Media Inspector

Media Inspector is a Chrome Extension that analyzes media assets on your site, including information on how the transformation was performed along with file size, status and more.

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Cloudinary
ServiceWorker

The Cloudinary ServiceWorker package allows you to integrate with Cloudinary at the browser level, without changing a single line of code in your project.

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Extendability:
CloudyDesktop/Android Upload

Cloudinary is exploring a variety of extendability options, including CloudyDesktop for syncing a local folder to Cloudinary, and Android Share to quickly move assets from mobile phones into Cloudinary.

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Interactive Video Zoom-In

Provide more ways to engage with videos using object-detection capabilities and the Cloudinary video player

*Patent pending

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Natural Language
Visual Search

Supercharge asset discovery based on visual similarity and natural phrasing—no tags required.

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Media Library Chrome Extension

Supercharge your workstreams. Browse your full asset library to search, find, and place assets, asset URLs, or generate variations on-the-fly—All within your favorite web-based applications.

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IPFS
(Interplanetary File System)

IPFS has become the network of choice for peer-to-peer storing and sharing data. Check out how Cloudinary Integrations supports fetching from IPFS or upload mapping to IPFS URIs.

Coming Soon

Cutting-edge Media Science and Research

Cloudinary Labs builds on our long-standing commitment to tech innovation across all facets of visual media, including the support and development of next-gen image and video codecs like JPEG XL, AVIF and AV1. Our team is relentless in pushing boundaries, exploring new technologies, different approaches to media creation and processes, and cutting-edge concepts that will reshape the future of visual media. In the coming months, we will share even more concepts and new artificial intelligence capabilities that will drive deeper connections with people and the visual experiences they encounter, interact and embrace in their digital lives.

Cloudinary Labs Legal Disclaimer

Any tool or application (collectively “Apps”) provided under Cloudinary Labs Portal (“Portal”) is an unsupported pre-production prototype undergoing further development and provided on an “AS IS” basis without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are disclaimed. Furthermore, Cloudinary is not under any obligation to provide a commercial version that incorporates all or some of the Apps and may at any time, temporarily or permanently, suspend the Portal and Apps, or a portion thereof, at its sole discretion.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary under any agreement or written instrument between You and Cloudinary, Your use of the Portal and Apps is at your sole risk and Cloudinary will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, consequential or similar damages (including, but not limited to, procurement of substitute goods or services; loss of use, data, or profits; or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of the Portal and Apps, even if advised of the possibility of such damage. All rights to and in the Portal and Apps are and will remain at all times, owned by, or licensed to Cloudinary.

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You must not misuse the Portal and Apps by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Portal and Apps, the server on which they are stored, or any server, computer or database connected to them. You may not modify, make derivative works of, disassemble, de-compile or reverse engineer any part of the Apps code.

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