Jae Lee - Founder and CEO of Twelve Labs

Asian Tech Leaders

Jae Lee is the Founder and CEO of Twelve Labs, a video understanding platform that uses AI to help developers and companies search and understand videos quickly. Using its state-of-the-art multimodal foundation model for videos that can accurately and instantly search exact moments within petabytes of video archives, generate coherent text summaries of videos, perform prompt-based video generation, and many more. Jae and his co-founders started the company in 2021 and has secured funding from prominent VCs including Index Ventures and Radial Ventures, and has been recognized as one of CB Insights' AI 100 companies.

Prior to starting Twelve Labs, Jae was an award-winning cyber security leader for the South Korean army and he previously spent time as a software engineer at Amazon and Samsung. Jae graduated from UC Berkeley where he studied computer science.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Where Jae is seeing the highest value from multimodal GenAI applications

• Why Jae believed that multimodal AI was the future and decided to start Twelve Labs

• How building Twelve Labs with a geographically diverse team is an edge

• Jae’s upbringing in Seoul and moving to the US with his uncle who sparked his imagination in math and statistics

You can follow Jae on Twitter and learn more about Twelve Labs at https://twelvelabs.io/

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Timestamps:

(00:01) Early Trends in Generative AI Technology

(11:55) Building Multimodal AI

(23:27) Exploring Curiosity and Statistical Learning

(28:31) Navigating Career Choices and Company Culture

(42:12) Online Presence and AI Influence

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Transcript

https://justinpang.com/jae-podcast-transcript