Quild Mini🦄 #137: AI21 Labs

Another large language model startup, this time from Israel

Jun 20, 2022

This is the Quild Minicorn, highlighting one future of work minicorn every weekday - early-stage startups with statistically significant signals of becoming a unicorn.

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:

Serial entrepreneurs
- Ori founded Tawkon and Crowdx (acquired by Cellwize) to track radiation with smartphones
- Yoav founded Katango, Timeful, Figure8
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
Fast team growth
- Grew 2.1x YoY to 100 employees
- And hiring across the board

Similar Quild companies (new section!): Cohere AI

Till tomorrow, Kenn