XL8.ai is a Silicon Valley AI company building machine translation purpose-built for media and live events. Founded in 2019 by ex-Google and ex-Apple engineers, it turns video, audio and live speech into accurate subtitles, synthesized dubbing and real-time interpretation across 45+ languages. Its two flagship products - MediaCAT for localization workflows and EventCAT for live multilingual events - are used by language service providers, broadcasters, FAST channels and enterprises in 70+ countries, with the company reporting more than 800,000 hours of content and 2.2+ billion words translated.
Tim Jung is the Founder and CEO of XL8.ai, a San Jose-based AI company building the world's most accurate machine translation engine for media and entertainment. A Columbia University PhD and former Google tech lead, Jung left a career launching NLP search features to solve a problem he saw up close: the media industry's broken localization pipeline. XL8 has since translated 800,000+ hours of content across 45+ languages, raised $11.5M including a $7.5M Series A led by KB Investment, and built a platform where AI doesn't replace human translators but makes them dramatically faster.