AI21 Labs
AI21 Labs is an Israeli artificial intelligence company pioneering enterprise-grade, trustworthy AI systems and foundation models. Founded by artificial intelligence pioneers—Amnon Shashua (co-founder of Mobileye), Professor Yoav Shoham (Stanford Professor Emeritus and former Google Principal Scientist), and serial entrepreneur Ori Goshen—AI21 focuses on building reliable, long-context generative AI solutions for organizations that cannot tolerate hallucinations or data breaches. The company’s mission centers on developing AI systems that become thought partners for humans, delivering accuracy and governance to mission-critical industries.
Use Cases
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Legal Services: M&A due diligence, eDiscovery, vendor risk assessment, and contract analysis with reduced hallucination risk.
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Healthcare: Medical intake workflow automation, patient history management, insurance data processing, and diagnostic support.
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Manufacturing: Equipment troubleshooting, legacy system data migration, and quality control automation.
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Financial Services: Fraud detection, compliance reporting, and risk analysis with auditable, trustworthy AI outputs.
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Enterprise Content Generation: Product descriptions, customer support automation, internal knowledge bases, and employee-facing chatbots.
Customers & Markets
AI21 serves numerous Fortune 100 companies and enterprises globally across diverse industries, including software (Capgemini, Lightricks, Jenni, Tweet Hunter, Wix), entertainment (Ubisoft, Latitude), data analytics (Clarivate), fintech (One Zero, Rapyd, Tipalti, JPMorgan), nonprofit (Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator), edtech (Educa Edtech), hospitality (Easyway), HR (Glassdoor), and retail (FNAC). The company’s customer base is concentrated in Europe and Israel, with growing adoption in North America.
Research, Partnerships & Innovations
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Research Focus: Long-context LLM architectures, hallucination reduction, agentic orchestration, and enterprise-grade AI governance and auditability.
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Partnerships: Strategic collaborations with NVIDIA (NIM deployment), Microsoft (Azure AI integration), Amazon Bedrock (model accessibility via AWS), Google (investment, cloud integration), HPE (on-premises deployments), and consulting firms like Accenture and Deloitte.
Key People
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Amnon Shashua – Chairman & Co-founder | AI pioneer; founder of Mobileye (acquired by Intel); computer science professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem; holds 94+ patents in machine learning.
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Yoav Shoham – Co-CEO & Co-founder | Professor Emeritus at Stanford University; former Principal Scientist at Google; AI researcher specializing in game theory and multi-agent systems.
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Ori Goshen – Co-CEO & Co-founder | Serial entrepreneur with 15+ years of technology leadership; previously founded Crowdx (network analytics) and pioneered VoIP development.