Amnon Shashua is an AI scientist and technology entrepreneur who co-founded Mobileye and announced plans to step down as its CEO in July 2026, remaining in the role until a successor is named. Amnon Shashua's Twitter Score is 8.9 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #104,959 among 498,348 tracked accounts.
Amnon Shashua co-founded Mobileye and also co-founded Mentee Robotics, which Mobileye acquired in 2026 for approximately $900 million; as co-founder and chairman of Mentee Robotics, he received approximately $341 million of that consideration. Beyond automotive technology, he co-founded AI21 Labs, a generative AI company, as well as OrCam Technologies and doubleAI Technologies. He also founded CogniTens and ONE ZERO Digital Bank, and holds the Sachs Chair in Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Amnon Shashua's work at doubleAI has drawn attention in the crypto space. The company's WarpSpeed system designed a quantum circuit targeting the secp256k1 ECDSA signature scheme used by both Bitcoin and Ethereum, achieving an efficiency roughly 2.5 times greater than Google's published design, raising questions about the long-term cryptographic security of major blockchain networks.
Amnon Shashua has accumulated 8,590 followers as of October 2026 and published 294 posts on the platform. He has been mentioned by 18 accounts, with 52 total mentions.
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