AI21 Labs

AKA: AI21.
Context:
- It was founded in 2017 by Yoav Shoham, Ori Goshen, Amnon Shashua and it is headquartered in Tel Aviv.
Example(s):
- Jurassic-1,
- Wordtune,
- …
Counter-Example(s):
- OpenAI,
- DeepMind,
- Microsoft Research.
See: Research Institute, Tech Company, NLP Innovator.

References

(Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI21_Labs Retrieved:2023-9-1.
- AI21 Labs is a Tel Aviv-based company specializing in Natural Language Processing (NLP), which develops AI systems that can understand and generate natural language.^[1]

(Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI21_Labs#History Retrieved:2023-9-1.
- AI21 Labs was founded in November 2017 by Yoav Shoham, Ori Goshen, and Amnon Shashua in Tel Aviv, 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. ^[1] 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. Amnon Shashua, 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 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 Nvidia.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Chen, Brian X. (2023-02-01). "A.I. Bots Can't Report This Column. But They Can Improve It". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-14.

"Language Data Analyst." Language Data Analyst, Job Description.
- AI21 Labs was co-founded by AI luminaries and serial entrepreneurs Prof. Amnon Shashua (Hebrew U, Mobileye), Prof. Yoav Shoham (Stanford, Google), and Ori Goshen (8200, Crowdx). The company is set to reimagine the way we interact with text, making reading and writing an AI-first experience. It is also one of the world's leading NLP research labs, conducting basic research in the field and publishing award winning papers in the prominent AI conferences
  The company’s product portfolio includes Wordtune, a writing companion tool used daily by millions across the world, that helps you rephrase your writing to say exactly what you mean. Wordtune Read, an AI reader that summarizes long documents so you can understand more, faster. And AI21 Studio, helping developers and businesses use cutting-edge language models, with no NLP expertise required.