Yoav Shoham
Co-founder and chairman of AI21 Labs; professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford
- Chairman & Co-Founder, AI21 Labs4
- Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, Stanford University12
Yoav Shoham is professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford University and the chairman and a co-founder of AI21 Labs, whose about page also describes Shoham as a former principal scientist at Google and notes work spanning AI, game theory and multi-agent systems. Shoham is a member of the steering committee of the AI Index at Stanford HAI, which tracks AI activity and progress, and Shoham's Stanford profile lists honors including the IJCAI Research Excellence Award (2019) and the AAAI/ACM Allen Newell Award (2013). Shoham is the last author of Jamba: A Hybrid Transformer-Mamba Language Model (2024), which says the model was released under the Apache 2.0 license.1435
Work
Jamba (external site: arxiv.org)Open weights
Last author of Jamba: A Hybrid Transformer-Mamba Language Model (2024), a hybrid Transformer-Mamba mixture-of-experts model; the paper says Jamba was released under the Apache 2.0 license on AI21 Labs' Hugging Face page.5
AI Index (external site: hai.stanford.edu)Published research
Listed as a member of the AI Index Steering Committee on Stanford HAI's People of AI Index page; Shoham's homepage also describes the index.32
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