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Jina AI

ACQUIRED
StartupAI Lab
Jina

German AI company from Berlin building search foundation models — embeddings, rerankers and readers for semantic search and RAG. Acquired by Elastic in October 2025.

Founded2020Germany
HQBerlinGermany
01 · About

Jina AI

Founded 2020 · Berlin, Germany

Jina AI (Jina AI GmbH) is a German artificial intelligence company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Berlin. It specializes in search foundation models, developing embedding models, rerankers, readers and small language models used to build semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. Many of its models (including the jina-embeddings, jina-reranker and jina-clip families) are released as open source while also being offered commercially through usage-based APIs. In October 2025, Jina AI was acquired by Elastic N.V.

  • Han Xiao

    Founder & CEO

02 · What they do

Domain of activity

3 areas · 4 technologies · 1 industries
What they do3Areas
  • Language models
  • Multimodal models
  • AI infrastructure
How they do it4Technologies
  • Foundation Models
  • Multimodal AI
  • NLP
  • RAG
Who for1Industries
  • Software & Technology
03 · Geography

Global presence

HQ Berlin · 1 regions
Global
04 · Metrics

Scale & funding

founded 2020
2020founded
growthdevelopment stage
Privatenot listed
acquiredstatus
06 · Relations

Organizational relations

1 strategic relations

Strategic relations

1
  • Acquired by
    Jina AI GmbH was acquired by Elastic N.V. (NYSE: ESTC) on October 9, 2025.
    2025 →
07 · Classification

Profile & metadata

4 classification · 5 external links

Classification

  • Statusacquired
  • Development stagegrowth
  • Listed onNoprivate
  • Organization typeStartup+ AI Lab