Jockey is TwelveLabs’ unified agentic system that reasons across your videos and images. It combines a reasoning model with a memory layer that builds a knowledge store from your corpus.
No context window holds a video archive. We work at a million hours of video. A single model forward pass can tell you about one file; it can’t reason across a corpus, and no context window closes that gap. Jockey decomposes a query, retrieves, segments, and reasons across thousands of videos and images. Point it at an archive, ask for a highlight reel or the best viral moments, and it returns timestamped cuts you can use. Corpus-level understanding you can act on is the whole product.
Built for agents, not just people. As AI agents increasingly become the primary consumers of video, we’re building production-grade infrastructure that scales to millions of hours while delivering reliable, high-quality results for both human users and autonomous agents.
We build on models we own. Marengo, our embedding model, resolves a query like “the moment we almost missed the flight” into real retrieval. Pegasus, our video-language model, returns structured, timestamped moments on a schema you define. We ship and improve both continuously, so Jockey’s quality compounds with every release — no re-integration for customers. Few teams get to build an agent on a stack they control end to end.
Deep expertise, one system, open culture. Foundation models, knowledge construction, search, and the agent harness all live in one org. Each team owns its domain and is expected to have deep expertise in it — but like a Formula 1 team, we optimize for the global system, not local parts. A model gain that doesn’t expand what the agent can do isn’t a gain. We trace a single algorithm change through to end-system behavior, and share work in progress weekly, not just finished results. Anyone can pull the context they need from any team.
The Cognition Models team owns the models that turn video into structured understanding and reasoning: Pegasus, our video-language model, and Jockey Core, the reasoning LLM behind Jockey. In the model stack we sit between Perception Models (embeddings and retrieval) and the agent system — taking what’s retrieved and producing structured understanding and the reasoning to act on it.
We focus on multimodal systems with high instruction-following capability and complex, hierarchically structured outputs. Our work spans training infrastructure from pre-training to RL, temporal segmentation and structured metadata extraction, large-scale inference and serving systems, data-curation and evaluation pipelines, and building Jockey Core. We ship products with real-world value rather than doing research in isolation, working as a goal-oriented, cross-functional team of ML researchers and engineers — using the most advanced compute in the world, including NVIDIA B300s, to accelerate the research-to-production cycle.
Jockey Core is the reasoning LLM at the center of Jockey — the model that decomposes a query, decides what to retrieve and segment, and reasons over the results into an answer you can act on. It sits in the critical path of every agent step, so its quality, latency, and cost directly shape what Jockey can do. Jockey Core is a model we own and serve end to end, and we improve it continuously so Jockey’s quality compounds with every release.