Back in 2010, TechViewz wrote about Kaltura in Kaltura Updates Open Source Video Platform. At the time, the story was about open-source video: giving organisations a way to publish, manage and distribute video without building everything from scratch.
Sixteen years later, Kaltura is still about video, but the ambition is much bigger.
The company now describes itself around agentic digital experiences, with AI tools that can turn video and other organisational content into something users can actually talk to. Kaltura’s Genies and conversational agents can answer questions, summarise content, surface relevant clips and use an organisation’s knowledge base as context. (Kaltura Knowledge Center)
That changes the role of video.
Traditionally, a company might have thousands of recorded webinars, training sessions, lectures and internal presentations sitting inside a video library. The information is there, but finding the exact answer usually means searching, opening a recording and scrubbing through the timeline.
Kaltura increasingly wants AI to sit on top of that library.
Its newer tools allow organisations to use videos, documents, web pages and even free-form text as knowledge sources for AI agents. Those agents can then respond through text, voice or interactive avatars. (Kaltura Knowledge Center)
The company has also been expanding beyond video management itself. It acquired eSelf.ai in late 2025 for conversational AI avatars, and in 2026 announced an agreement to acquire PathFactory to add content intelligence, personalisation and journey orchestration. (Kaltura)
There is an interesting connection to Kaltura’s past too.
In 2010, open source was part of the company’s identity. In 2026, Kaltura again released open-source components, this time a set of AI agent skills designed to help coding agents build rich-media applications on top of its platform. (Kaltura)
So the old Kaltura story was about making video easier to publish.
The new Kaltura story is about making video easier to understand.
The video is no longer just something you watch.
It is becoming part of the knowledge an AI agent can use.