AI21 Labs
$1.4B
Reported valuation
The original Israeli LLM company, predating the current wave by five years; its Jamba models pair Mamba state-space layers with transformer blocks for long context at lower memory cost.
- Founded
- 2017
- Research area
- Applied — Open weights
- Headquarters
- Tel Aviv, Israel
Founders
- Ori Goshen — previously Other startups
- Amnon Shashua — previously Mobileye, Hebrew University
- Yoav Shoham — previously Stanford, Google