At the April 2026 NAB Show, streaming infrastructure specialist Wowza put forward a proposition centered on live video becoming too valuable to merely transport. For a technology company in the business of transporting video for 20 years, this initially landed as a strange pitch. The US vendor used the Las Vegas M&E showcase to unveil its Video Intelligence Framework (VIF), designed to insert AI inference directly into the live streaming workflow. Rather than treating video intelligence as something that happens after a feed has been recorded and archived, Wowza wants operators to extract metadata, events, clips and other signals while the video is still moving. It has taken a few more months for Wowza to refine VIF, as the new…