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Jae Lee

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Jae Lee is the CEO and co-founder of TwelveLabs, an AI company focused on multimodal video understanding. TwelveLabs develops foundation models that allow developers and enterprises to build applications capable of searching, analyzing, and extracting meaning from video at scale — a capability with significant implications for media, content platforms, and advertising technology where video intelligence is increasingly valuable. Lee co-founded TwelveLabs with a mission to make video as searchable and understandable as text. The company has raised notable venture funding and attracted attention from investors and media companies interested in unlocking the value of large video libraries. TwelveLabs offers APIs that power use cases ranging from content moderation and highlight detection to semantic video search.

Last updated Oct 22, 2026 by ATDb automated enrichment

Role
CEO and Co-founder
Company
TwelveLabs
Based
San Francisco, California, United States

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Bio

Jae Lee is the CEO and co-founder of TwelveLabs, an AI company focused on multimodal video understanding. TwelveLabs develops foundation models that allow developers and enterprises to build applications capable of searching, analyzing, and extracting meaning from video at scale — a capability with significant implications for media, content platforms, and advertising technology where video intelligence is increasingly valuable. Lee co-founded TwelveLabs with a mission to make video as searchable and understandable as text. The company has raised notable venture funding and attracted attention from investors and media companies interested in unlocking the value of large video libraries. TwelveLabs offers APIs that power use cases ranging from content moderation and highlight detection to semantic video search.

Expertise & education

Expertise

Multimodal AIVideo UnderstandingFoundation ModelsComputer VisionAI APIsVideo SearchGenerative AIMachine Learning

Speaking topics

Multimodal AI and video understandingBuilding AI infrastructure for unstructured video dataThe future of video search and content intelligence

Recognition

Notable achievements

  • Co-founded TwelveLabs and raised significant venture capital to build video understanding AI infrastructure
  • Developed multimodal video foundation models enabling semantic search and analysis across large video libraries