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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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Researcher Profile
Editor reviewedYoav Shoham
Hybrid Transformer–Mamba language models (Jamba)
Professor emeritus at Stanford University and co-founder of AI21 Labs
A field-shaping figure for agentic AI and multi-agent reasoning long before the current LLM cycle, and now one of the clearest bridges between that older intellectual lineage and AI21’s frontier-model work.
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Stanford UniversityAI21 Labs
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March 18, 2026
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Game theory and multi-agent systems
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Institution building around AI21 Labs
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Tracking the field through AI Index
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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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