AI21 Labs

Foundation Models

Enterprise AI company building the Jamba language models and Maestro, its orchestration layer for AI agents.

Total funding$636M
Valuation$1.4B
Employees—
Founded2017
HeadquartersTel Aviv, Israel
StatusPrivate
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Sources

Total funding

News reporting · 5 Oct 2025

"The round, which includes backing from Google and Nvidia, would bring the company's total capital raised to $636 million." CTech, 2025-10-05, reporting the Series D. Hedged as "would bring" (round in progress at publication) but corroborated by independent aggregate figures converging on the same number.

Valuation

Press release · 31 Aug 2023

"AI21 Labs Announces Series C Funding Round at $1.4 Billion Valuation" — AI21's own announcement dated Aug 31 2023. The figure is now dated -- three years old.

Employees

Checked — none published

Checked 2026-08-27 and no citable figure found. Four sweeps were run and all came back empty for this company: (1) its own /about, /about-us, /company, /careers, /jobs and /team pages, pattern-matched for a self-published headcount; (2) stockanalysis.com's private-company page, which footnotes each figure to its source; (3) its Forbes company profile, which states a headcount and the month it is as of; (4) a targeted web search. Everything the search returned was a LinkedIn-scraping aggregator, and those disagree with each other by wide margins and cite nothing, so they are not used here. The field is null rather than carrying the round guess it held before.

Founded

Wikipedia · 27 Aug 2026

Wikipedia infobox "founded" field, read 2026-08-27.

Description

Official documentation · 6 Sep 2026

The word Jurassic appears nowhere on AI21's current model page. The line is "Maestro: Optimization framework for real-world AI agents" and "Jamba Models: Efficient LLMs for long-context processing".

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