Han Xiao is a machine learning engineer and entrepreneur who founded Jina AI and now serves as VP of AI at Elastic following that company's acquisition of Jina AI in October 2025. Han Xiao's Twitter Score is 26 out of 1000 as of September 2026, ranking #37,069 (top 10%) among 486,621 tracked accounts.
Han Xiao founded Jina AI in 2020 and led the company as CEO until its acquisition by Elastic. During that period, Jina AI raised a $30 million Series A in 2021, a round led by Canaan Partners with participation from Mango Capital, GGV Capital, SAP.iO, and Yunqi Partners. Han Xiao also founded the German-Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence and previously served as a board member of the LF AI Foundation.
Han Xiao previously worked at Tencent AI Lab as an Engineering Lead and at Zalando Research as a Senior Research Scientist. Before starting Jina AI, he created the Fashion-MNIST computer-vision benchmark, a dataset widely used in the machine learning community. Han Xiao's account has published 6,055 posts and has been mentioned by 4 accounts a total of 12 times.
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