AI21 Labs is an Israeli company specializing in

Natural Language Processing Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to proc ...

(NLP), which develops AI systems that can understand and generate

natural language In neuropsychology, linguistics, and philosophy of language, a natural language or ordinary language is any language that has evolved naturally in humans through use and repetition without conscious planning or premeditation. Natural languag ...

History

AI21 Labs was founded in November 2017 by

Yoav Shoham Yoav Shoham ( he, יואב שוהם; born 22 January 1956) is a computer scientist and a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. His research spans artificial intelligence, logic and game theory. He has also founded and sold several AI compa ...

, Ori Goshen, and

Amnon Shashua Amnon Shashua (; born May 26, 1960) is an Israeli computer scientist and businessman. He is the Sachs Professor of Computer Science at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mobileye, Co-Founder of O ...

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

, Israel. In January 2019, the company raised $9.5 million from investors in a seed funding round. On October 27, 2020, AI21 Labs launched its first product, Wordtune, an AI-based writing assistant that understands context and can suggest paraphrases and rewrites. Google named Wordtune one of its favorite extensions of 2021. In August 2021, the company launched AI21 Studio. In the same month, Jurassic-1, a natural language processing system, was launched with a token vocabulary over 250,000. In November 2021, Walden Catalyst announced an investment of $20 Million in AI21 Labs. Later that month, AI21 Labs completed a $25 million series A round led by Pitango First. In July 2022, the company raised $64 million in a series B funding round led by Ahren with the participation of prof.

, Walden Catalyst, Pitango, TPY Capital, and Mark Leslie. On January 17, 2023, AI21 Labs announced the launch of Wordtune Spices, a generative AI tool that generates a range of text options that can enhance sentences. On March 9, 2023, the company announced the release of Jurassic-2, claiming it has better response times, understands more languages, and features advanced instruction following. On August 31, 2023, the company announced the closing of $155 million Series C financing round. Investors include previous participants, alongside new ones such as Google and

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. On March 29, 2024 the company released the Jamba (language model) - an open weights large language model built on a hybrid

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SSM

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using

mixture of experts Mixture of experts (MoE) refers to a machine learning technique where multiple expert networks (learners) are used to divide a problem space into homogeneous regions. It differs from ensemble techniques in that typically only a few, or 1, expert m ...

with up to 256k context.

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