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Han Xiao

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Founder at Jina

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Han Xiao is Vice President of AI at Elastic. He founded Jina AI in 2020 and served as its CEO until the company was acquired by Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) in 2025. He previously worked on search at Tencent and Zalando and created Fashion-MNIST, a computer vision benchmark cited more than 13,000 times.

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Who is Han Xiao?
Han Xiao is Vice President of AI at Elastic. He founded Jina AI in 2020 and served as its CEO until the company was acquired by Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) in 2025. He previously worked on search at Tencent and Zalando and created Fashion-MNIST, a computer vision benchmark cited more than 13,000 times.
Where does Han Xiao work?
Han Xiao is Founder of Jina.
What companies did Han Xiao found?
Han Xiao founded Jina.

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