"The generative AI revolution is bigger than the mobile revolution"

Says Uri Goshen, joint CEO of AI21 Labs. At the Silicon Club meeting entitled "Smart people, smart machines - have we reached the stage where chatbots replace human thinking?"

"The generative AI revolution affects and will affect our lives immeasurably, and we believe that it is even greater than the mobile revolution. There is almost no CEO today who has not ordered the implementation of generative AI in the organization. It will enable professionals from all fields such as medicine, law , finance and more - to focus more on the core of their work, and save them from routine operations that can be performed automatically, thus empowering them." Says Uri Goshen, joint CEO of AI21 Labs. Goshen will participate this Tuesday in the meeting of the Silicon Club senior club. The meeting will take place on May 23 and will be held in a new location - the Leon Auditorium, at the Kohler Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University. The topic of the meeting: "Smart people, smart machines - have we reached a stage where chatbots replace human thinking?"

"We welcome the public discourse that is taking place around the challenges of AI. This is an important and necessary discussion. However, the discourse should take place beyond the industry and include governments, academia, social organizations, people in the humanities, and more. The regulatory challenges to the field are great, especially in view of the gap between The progress of the technology and the ability to catch up with it from a regulatory point of view. Therefore, in the current period until the regulation of the field, the AI ​​companies must conduct themselves through self-regulation For fear of job redundancy - it is a mistake to look at artificial intelligence tools in the world as a replacement for the human factor - and therefore work based on artificial intelligence alone is by definition a less good product. Artificial intelligence tools are great aids that allow us to achieve better results in a shorter time, but at no point are they a substitute To the employees themselves. Regarding Wordtune - we believe that humans have been and always will be the best writers on the planet."

AI21 Labs is an artificial intelligence startup founded in 2017 by Prof. Amnon Shashua, Prof. Yoav Shoham and Uri Goshen, and is engaged in the development of comprehensive and advanced models for natural language processing. he One of the few in the world that deals with both building advanced language models and developing applications. Also, it is the only startup in Israel that builds language models from scratch. 

The company's first product, wordtune, is a commercial success with millions of active users and rave reviews, including from Google - which chose it as one of its favorite plugins. It is the only tool in the world that indicates the source from which the information created for the user is taken. Wordtune Write is a tool that helps with writing and is able to understand the writer's intent, offer alternative wording, shorten or lengthen the base text, change the wording according to the requested style (e.g. formal) or the target audience for which the text is intended, correct writing and grammar mistakes, offer jokes, historical facts and more. Wordtune Read analyzes and summarizes documents in a few seconds, including a summary according to specific topics in the text, and allows users to read a long and complex text quickly and efficiently. 

The company recently launched Natural language processing model Advanced called Jurassic-2 that joins AI21 Studio, the company's developer platform. Amazon chose AI21 Labs' language models for AWS in response to competition from Microsoft and OpenAI.

In the last year, the company doubled its workforce, and about 200 of its employees are located in offices in Tel Aviv. In the coming year you will recruit for dozens of positions in the fields of development, product management, UI/UX and marketing. 

Ori Goshen, founder and co-CEO of AI21 Labs, with over 15 years of experience in technology and product management roles, starting his career at Unit 8200, where he led development teams and groundbreaking security projects. He then served as product manager at Fring, which was acquired by Genband, leading the development of the first-ever VoIP and messaging app for iPhone and Android. He then founded the startup CrowdX, which was sold in 2016 to CellWize. In 2023 he was selected for the list of influential Israelis in the field of artificial intelligence by tech12. 

Prof. Yoav Shoham, founder and co-CEO, is a professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford University, and one of the leaders in the field of artificial intelligence in the world. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Technion, and a doctorate in computer science from Yale University. After a postdoctoral period at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Prof. Shoham taught at Stanford University until 2015. Shoham is also the founding chairman of AI Index at Stanford University, which follows activities and developments in the field of AI. Prof. Shoham founded several start-up companies, among them TradingDynamics which was sold to Ariba, and two other companies that were acquired by Google: Katango and Timeful.