Yoav Shoham (@yshoham) — Twitter Score 9 out of 1000

Yoav Shoham is a computer scientist and entrepreneur who co-founded AI21 Labs, an enterprise AI company building foundation models and AI systems. Yoav Shoham's Twitter Score is 8.6 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #107,861 among 498,181 tracked accounts.

Yoav Shoham co-founded AI21 Labs alongside Amnon Shashua and Ori Goshen to develop AI systems for enterprise use. The company's work spans foundation models including the Jamba family of open models and AI21 Maestro. According to public reporting, AI21 Labs raised a $155M Series C in August 2023, bringing its total funding to $283M at a $1.4B valuation.

Yoav Shoham is a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University and serves as Founding Chair of the AI Index. He previously worked at Google as a Principal Scientist, and was formerly an advisor to Robust Intelligence, which was acquired by Cisco in September 2024. Beyond AI21 Labs, Yoav Shoham co-founded Timeful, acquired by Google in 2015, co-founded Figure8, acquired by Care.com in 2019, and co-founded Katango, acquired by Google in 2011. He also founded TradingDynamics, which was acquired by Ariba in 2000.

Yoav Shoham has published 546 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 16 accounts, with 20 total mentions. He has 2,459 followers as of October 2026 on the platform.

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The accounts that follow Yoav Shoham include 33 founders, 6 angel investors, 3 influencers and 1 VCs. Among his notable followers are Chris Dixon, Josh Ong, Robert Scoble, Andrew Ng, Jeff Dean and Ilmoi.