Jae Lee is the visionary Co-Founder and CEO of TwelveLabs, an industry-leading AI company transforming video search and understanding. Under his leadership, TwelveLabs has pioneered the development of advanced multimodal video foundation models that empower businesses and developers to extract deep, context-rich insights from video content with near-human intelligence.Harnessing cutting-edge generative AI and machine learning technologies, TwelveLabs is redefining next-generation video processing, retrieval, and interactive question-answering capabilities. By seamlessly integrating visual, audio, and textual data, their models capture the full spectrum of meaning embedded in video content—setting a new standard for scalable, personalized and intelligent video experiences across media, security, sports analytics, and enterprise intelligence.TwelveLabs’ groundbreaking work has earned it prestigious accolades, including recognition as a World Economic Forum (WEF) Tech Pioneer, inclusion on the CB Insights AI 100 List, and Fast Company’s Most Innovative AI Companies award. Backed by top-tier AI and deep-tech investors—such as NVIDIA, NEA, Index Ventures, Radical Ventures, Alex Wang (CEO of Scale AI), Dr. Fei-Fei Li (Stanford University), and Dr. Oren Etzioni (AI2)—the company is poised to shape the future of multimodal AI and redefine how we interact with the world’s most complex data format.