Turing Video, Inc. (d/b/a Turing AI) is a privately held, venture-backed maker of AI video-surveillance hardware and software headquartered at 1730 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo, California (previously San Jose). It was founded in 2017 by graduate-school acquaintances from USC and UCLA. Investors reported by CB Insights and Crunchbase include ZhenFund, UpHonest Capital, Basis Set Ventures, Foothill Ventures, and BRC Innovation, with roughly $5M raised across seed and Series B rounds — figures that should be treated cautiously, as startup databases disagree. Headcount is reported in the 51–200 band (ZoomInfo; BuiltIn lists ~84), and no public revenue or market-cap figure is verifiable; the company is not publicly traded.
Products / operations. Turing AI sells an integrated physical-security stack: Turing Vision, a cloud/VSaaS video management and analytics platform; Smart Series NDAA-compliant network cameras and NVRs (with low-light TwilightVision and VibrantView features); Edge+ and EC-series cloud cameras; solar-powered remote surveillance units marketed as SkyShield, SolarShield, and TrailerShield; the Turing Robot autonomous patrol robot; and AI analytics including people/vehicle attribute search and license-plate recognition. A 2025 partnership with Reka produced Guardian AI, an agentic natural-language surveillance/search product. Reported deployments run to hundreds of sites and tens of thousands of cameras, with customers in real estate, retail, casinos, and data centers. Turing Video is therefore an operating company, not a patent-assertion entity.
Litigation posture. The tracked data shows exactly one case, with Turing Video named solely as a defendant — the classic profile of an operating company targeted by an NPE. It has no plaintiff-side filings.
Notable case. Cedar Lane Technologies Inc. v. Turing Video et al. (D. Del.). Cedar Lane is a Canadian patent-assertion entity, founded around 2019, that has filed hundreds of suits — largely in D. Del. and the plaintiff-friendly W.D. Tex. — asserting acquired imaging and audio-video patents, including portfolio material traced to Intellectual Ventures. The Turing suit fits that campaign, which reflects Turing's video-processing technology rather than any counter-assertion by Turing.