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AI21 Labs is building state-of-the-art language models that can process any language comprehension or generation task. No NLP expertise needed for developers to build scalable & efficient applications.

Executive founders: Ori, Yoav

Note: Amnon is also a co-founder but is active as chairman. Amnon co-founded MobileEye and is a senior VP at Intel

Signals:

1. Serial entrepreneurs

   • Ori founded Tawkon and Crowdx (acquired by Cellwize) to track radiation with smartphones

   • Yoav founded Katango, Timeful, Figure8

2. Top institution alumni

   • Yoav was a principal scientist at Google for a few years and professor emeritus at Stanford University

   • Ori was an engineer at IDF for a few years

3. Fast team growth

   • Grew 2.1x YoY to 100 employees

   • And hiring across the board

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Till tomorrow, Kenn