News & Updates
Follow our progress as we build the future of local AI media management. All updates also appear on our LinkedIn.
Visit us at the VP Marketplace during the Virtual Production Gathering at Breda University of Applied Sciences. We'll be demonstrating how Colibri's local AI can help VFX and virtual production teams manage, search and explore large media libraries - from on-set footage to 360 plates and backdrops - without cloud dependencies or data leaving the studio.
Find Colibri and the Carl Laemmle Institut at the FMX Marketplace in Stuttgart. FMX brings together the global animation, VFX and immersive media community - the perfect place to show how local AI can transform media asset management for creative productions. Live demos of intelligent analysis, transcription, translation and semantic search across production archives.
Colibri and the Carl Laemmle Institut will be exhibiting at the KI Festival in Heilbronn, hosted by the IPAI Foundation. The festival makes AI tangible for a broad audience - we'll show how local, privacy-first AI can make media archives accessible and searchable for everyone, from journalists and researchers to families and cultural institutions.
Colibri opens applications for its beta program. The upcoming beta will include image description, transcription, translation, face recognition and semantic search - all running locally on macOS. Interested users can now sign up for early access.
We presented Colibri at the KI Salon in Heilbronn, hosted by IPAI, in front of around 120 participants. Live demos showed image, video and audio analysis, transcript generation, and semantic search - all running locally on-device. The discussions afterward revealed strong interest in data sovereignty for archives, journalism, media production and internal knowledge management, and led to promising new contacts.
The first working vertical prototype of Colibri demonstrates the full pipeline: import, AI analysis and search. Core features include automatic tagging, transcription and a semantic search engine - all running on-device.
A formal cooperation agreement has been signed between Colibri and Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Signed by Dr. Andreas Bareiss (FABW managing director) and Jonas Trottnow, the partnership focuses on practical development and testing of Colibri's privacy-first AI tools for media analysis. The Animationsinstitut's R&D team serves as a test environment and development partner.
The Colibri Project goes public - an independent software initiative to democratize AI-powered media management. Colibri enables locally executable, modular transcription, image analysis, semantic search and cross-media linking, all operating offline with a privacy-first architecture. Built for media professionals, journalists, researchers and cultural institutions.
Stay Updated
Subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on LinkedIn to stay informed.