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## Our Mission: Search/acc

Founded in 2020 by Han Xiao, Jina AI is a leading search AI company. We provide Embeddings, Rerankers, Readers, and Small Language Models that help businesses and developers build powerful search applications—delivering highly relevant, grounded, multimodal, and multilingual results. On October 9, 2025, Jina AI was acquired by Elastic (NYSE: ESTC).

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## Our Customers

Businesses of all sizes trust Jina AI's Search Foundation to power their tools and products—so can you.

LLM Providers

Major LLM companies use Jina Reader to crawl and search the web for better training data.

Tech Companies

Software, cloud, and AI companies use our search tools to build their RAG and AI agent systems. Our reader, embeddings, and rerankers help them ship products faster.

Finance & Consulting

Banks and consulting firms use our tools to clean data and get insights fast. We offer secure on-premise options so they can keep their data private.

E-commerce & Retail

Online stores use Jina to power product search and recommendations. Our multilingual models help them sell globally.

Other Industries

Companies in education, farming, real estate, and more use our tools to clean and search their data. We help them find what they need, faster.