| Known as | American computer scientist |
|---|---|
| Roles | Co-founder, AI21 Labs |
| Education | Yale University, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
| Recognition | ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award, ACM Fellow, AAAI Fellow, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Links | Wikipedia · ai21.com |
About Yoav Shoham
Yoav Shoham is a co-founder of AI21 Labs.
AI21 Labs: Builds the Jamba models, a hybrid Transformer–Mamba architecture.
Yoav studied at Yale University and Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Honours for Yoav's work include: ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award, ACM Fellow, AAAI Fellow and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Today AI21 Labs ranks #104 of 144 on the AGIX Leaderboard, with 3 public models released in the last year. It's one of the companies shaping how general-purpose AI gets built, and Yoav is part of that story.
Facts from public company information, Wikipedia and Wikidata; lab figures from AGIX data, 2 Nov 2026. Yoav, or someone who works with them? Suggest an update.