# Alon Talmor

> Alon Talmor is the founder and CEO of Mosaic AI, formerly Ask-AI, an enterprise AI company focused on complex B2B technical support. He previously cofounded BlueTail, acquired by Salesforce in 2012, and served as chief data scientist at Data.com. A Tel Aviv University PhD advised by Jonathan Berant, he has coauthored research on complex question answering, common sense, model reasoning and factual corrections in business AI systems.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Mosaic AI
- **Organizations:** Mosaic AI (formerly Ask-AI), BlueTail, Salesforce / Data.com, Tel Aviv University, Allen Institute for AI / AI2 Israel
- **Education:** PhD in natural language processing; research on reasoning for question answering; advisor Jonathan Berant, Tel Aviv University, Master’s in Brain Research
- **Known for:** Cofounded BlueTail, acquired by Salesforce in 2012., Served as chief data scientist at Salesforce’s Data.com., Earned a PhD at Tel Aviv University under Jonathan Berant.

## Career timeline

- **2012** — BlueTail was acquired by Salesforce; Talmor became chief data scientist at Data.com.
- **2015** — After Salesforce, chose to pursue doctoral work in AI and NLP; later described a period of world travel before returning to research.
- **2018** — Coauthored The Web as a Knowledge-base for Answering Complex Questions with Jonathan Berant; introduced ComplexWebQuestions.
- **2019** — Coauthored CommonsenseQA with Jonathan Herzig, Nicholas Lourie and Jonathan Berant.
- **2020** — Completed his PhD; coauthored Leap-Of-Thought and the TACL paper oLMpics.
- **2021** — Ask-AI was formally founded at the end of the year; CommonsenseQA 2.0 was presented as an oral paper at NeurIPS.
- **2022** — Ask-AI announced $9 million in seed financing on October 25.
- **2024** — Ask-AI announced an $11 million Series A led by Leaders Fund on January 10, bringing announced funding to $20 million at that date.
- **2026** — Announced the Mosaic AI name on January 19; coauthored Iterate Until Retrieved, initially submitted May 25 and revised October 19.

## Achievements

- Cofounded BlueTail, acquired by Salesforce in 2012.
- Served as chief data scientist at Salesforce’s Data.com.
- Earned a PhD at Tel Aviv University under Jonathan Berant.
- Led AI gamification efforts at AI2 Israel, according to his personal biography.
- Coauthored ComplexWebQuestions, CommonsenseQA, oLMpics, Leap-Of-Thought and CommonsenseQA 2.0.
- CommonsenseQA 2.0 was presented as an oral paper at NeurIPS 2021.
- Led Ask-AI through the seed and Series A announcements of 2022 and 2024.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — The coauthored preprint Iterate Until Retrieved was revised on October 19, 2026; it studies making factual corrections discoverable and usable in production B2B knowledge-assistance agents.
- **2026-05** — Iterate Until Retrieved was initially submitted to arXiv on May 25, 2026.
- **2026-01** — On January 19, Talmor announced that Ask-AI’s platform was becoming Mosaic AI.

## Links

- Website: https://www.alontalmor.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alontalmor/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/alontalmor
- GitHub: https://github.com/alontalmor
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alon.talmor/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/atalmor

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