Business Overview
Founders
Funding Rounds
AI Technology Stack
Research

AI21

Artificial General Intelligence

AI Enablers, Artificial General Intelligence, Core AI
Machine Learning Natural Language Processing

Business Overview

AI21 was formed by AI luminaries and veterans of the Israeli technological intelligence unit, with the mission of marrying existing machine learning and NLP technologies with the knowledge representation technologies of the 1980s, giving rise to AI with an unprecedented capacity to understand, analyze and visualize complex information. The company was founded by seasoned entrepreneurs Prof. Yoav Shoham, a CS Professor Emeritus at Stanford University and Ori Goshen, ex-(Israeli) intelligence.

Operating Status
Active
Founded
November 2017
Employees
20
Business model
B2B
Offering type
Software
Funding stage
Seed
Business stage
Launched
Revenue status
Revenue Generating
Total funding
$34.5 Million
Investors
8VC, Amnon Shashua, Pitango Venture Capital, Shlomo Kramer, TPY Capital, Zeevi Michel
Sectors
AI Enablers, Artificial General Intelligence, Core AI, Custom, Technologies

Founders

AI21
Ori Goshen
Co-CEO
Serial Entrepreneur
AI21
Yoav Shoham
Co-CEO
Serial Entrepreneur
AI Expert
AI21
Amnon Shashua
Chairman
Serial Entrepreneur
AI Expert

Funding Rounds

Calculated as the average ratio between the current funding round amount raised and the previous funding round amount raised. Note that 'plus' rounds are summed together. i.e. Series A = Series A and Series A+.
Funding Growth Multiple
2.6x

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Date Announced

Funding Round

Amount Raised

Investors

November 2020
Series A
$25 M
8VC, Pitango Venture Capital, TPY Capital
May 2018
Seed
$9.5 M
8VC, Amnon Shashua, Pitango Venture Capital, Shlomo Kramer, TPY Capital, Zeevi Michel

AI Technology Stack

AI Description

AI21 develops the next generation of AI software “ AI that augments existing Machine Learning technology with an innovative capacity to understand, analyze and visualize abstract knowledge structures such as time, space, causality and agent-relative beliefs, intentions and preferences.

AI employees
11
AI application
Horizontal AI
AI types
Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
ML types
Semi-Supervised Learning, Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning
AI algorithms
Bayesian Networks, Inductive Logic Programming, Neural Networks, Representation Learning, Rule-Based
AI tools
Proprietary, Pytorch/Torch
Coding
C++, Java, Python
AI hardware
CPU, GPU

Research

PMI-Masking: Principled masking of correlated spans

Masking tokens uniformly at random constitutes a common flaw in the pretraining of Masked Language Models (MLMs) such as BERT. We show that such uniform masking allows an MLM to minimize its training objective by latching onto shallow local signals, leading to pretraining inefficiency and suboptimal downstream performance. To address...
  • arXiv
  • 05/10/2020

The Cost of Training NLP Models: A Concise Overview

We review the cost of training large-scale language models, and the drivers of these costs. The intended audience includes engineers and scientists budgeting their model-training experiments, as well as non-practitioners trying to make sense of the economics of modern-day Natural Language Processing (NLP).
  • arXiv
  • 19/04/2020

SenseBERT: Driving Some Sense into BERT

The ability to learn from large unlabeled corpora has allowed neural language models to advance the frontier in natural language understanding. However, existing self-supervision techniques operate at the word form level, which serves as a surrogate for the underlying semantic content. This paper proposes a method to employ weak-supervision directly...
  • arXiv
  • 15/08/2019

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