# Han Xiao

> Han Xiao is founder of Jina AI; VP AI at Elastic. jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small and Jina Reader on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Founder of Jina AI; VP AI at Elastic.

Han Xiao founded Jina AI in 2020 and ran it as CEO until Elastic acquired the company in October 2025. He is now VP of AI at Elastic. He previously worked on search at Tencent and Zalando, created the Fashion-MNIST benchmark and holds a PhD from TU Munich.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hxiao87
- X: https://x.com/hxiao

## What Han builds

- [jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small.md), graded D, 50.2/100, in Embeddings & rerankers. jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small is Jina AI's open-weight embedding model for text, images, video, audio and PDFs, about 1.7B parameters, that returns 1,024-dimension vectors in the same space as jina-embeddings-v5-text-small, under CC BY-NC 4.0 (non-commercial). Founder of Jina AI; VP AI at Elastic, researched 2026-10-27.
- [Jina Reader](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jina-reader.md), graded E, 45.3/100, in Web scraping & crawling. API that converts web pages and search results to Markdown for agents and applications. Founder of Jina AI; VP AI at Elastic, researched 2026-10-27.

## Works with

- [Florian Hönicke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/florian-honicke/), Principal AI researcher; v5-omni paper first author

## Backed by

- [Canaan Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/canaan-partners/)
- [Mango Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/mango-capital/)
- [Notable Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/notable-capital/)
- [SAP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/sap/)
- [Yunqi Partners](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/yunqi-partners/)

## Questions

### Who is Han Xiao?

Han Xiao founded Jina AI in 2020 and ran it as CEO until Elastic acquired the company in October 2025. He is now VP of AI at Elastic. He previously worked on search at Tencent and Zalando, created the Fashion-MNIST benchmark and holds a PhD from TU Munich.

### What does Jina AI (Elastic) make?

Anchor Terminal lists jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small and Jina Reader from Jina AI (Elastic). jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small is Jina AI's open-weight embedding model for text, images, video, audio and PDFs, about 1.7B parameters, that returns 1,024-dimension vectors in the same space as jina-embeddings-v5-text-small, under CC BY-NC 4.0 (non-commercial).

### Who has invested in Jina AI (Elastic)?

The sources our research read name Canaan Partners, Mango Capital, Notable Capital, SAP and Yunqi Partners.

### How are Han's tools graded?

jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small is graded D, 50.2 out of 100; Jina Reader is graded E, 45.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://hanxiao.io
- https://jina.ai
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/hxiao87
- https://x.com/hxiao
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08384
- https://huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small
- https://x.com/florianhoenicke
- https://jina.ai/
- https://jina.ai/contact-sales/
- https://huggingface.co/jinaai/jina-embeddings-v5-omni-small/discussions/2
- https://github.com/jina-ai/reader

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