Worth knowing because his work links earlier dense-retrieval research to later MRKL and Jamba systems, which makes his page a good bridge between classic NLP retrieval and newer hybrid LLM stacks.
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Editor reviewedShai Shalev-Shwartz
Hybrid Transformer–Mamba language models (Jamba)
Chief Technology Officer at Mobileye
Important because his work bridges classical machine-learning theory, autonomous-driving safety, and more recent frontier-model research rather than staying inside a single subfield.
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March 18, 2026
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Learning theory and optimization
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Formal safety work for self-driving systems
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Recent foundation-model work at AI21
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Hybrid Transformer–Mamba language models (Jamba)
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Jamba: A Hybrid Transformer-Mamba Language Model
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Jamba-1.5: Hybrid Transformer-Mamba Models at Scale
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