Google announced the launch of its Cloud Video Intelligence application programming interface (API) during the Google Cloud Next conference held in San Francisco on Wednesday. The Cloud platform can figure out what the videos are about and detect objects within them. After processing the videos, the Cloud AI lets people search for videos that contain certain things.

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The Cloud Video Intelligence API is now available to developers in a closed beta. It helps analyze videos to make contents searchable. The newest Google tool lets people search one or more videos using keywords and get back a list of results that shows where in the video certain objects can the object be found.

Google said the Cloud Video Intelligence API allows developers to take advantage of Google video search capabilities even if they do not have a background in using the machine or computer vision. "This API is for large media organizations and consumer technology companies, who want to build their media catalogs or find easy ways to manage crowd-sourced content." Google Chief Scientist Fei-Fei Li wrote in a blog post.

Google Research has been working on understanding the content of videos and is now sharing its existing capabilities for other organizations to use. Google has previously done this with image recognition and speech recognition.

Meanwhile, the technology company also revealed during the launch that it is partnering with Kaggle.

Kaggle is a platform that hosts data science and machine learning competitions. This means that Google is buying one of the largest and most active communities of data scientists. Kaggle CEO Anthony Goldbloom has revealed the team will stay together and continue as its brand within Google Cloud.

"Kaggle joining Google will allow us to achieve even more," Goldbloom wrote in a blog post. "It combines the world's largest data science community with the world's most powerful machine learning cloud."

Kaggle has a bit of a history with Google. Earlier this month, Kaggle teamed up with the tech giant to host a machine learning competition about classifying Youtube videos.

While Kaggle remains a community and not as large as the company, it has built interesting tools such as the Kaggle Kernels. The Kernels are source code for analyzing data sets.