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Feb 9, 2026 11 min

Reka AI Tiny Efficient Multimodal Models That Cut Crime

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An Ohio police department taught their security cameras to think using AI from a startup you've never heard of, and crime dropped 42 percent while cases got solved 65 percent faster. Reka AI just hit a billion-dollar valuation by doing the opposite of everyone else: building tiny, efficient models that actually work in the real world instead of chasing massive parameter counts. Their 21 billion parameter model beats systems many times its size and can watch video feeds, understand what's happening across multiple cameras, and answer questions like show me everyone in a red jacket who entered this building today.

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