Research leaders
Llion Jones
Co-author of the Transformer; co-founded Sakana AI.
🇯🇵JapanCo-founder & CTO, Sakana AI
One of the eight authors of 'Attention Is All You Need', and the one who named it. Stayed at Google longest of the eight before founding Sakana in Tokyo.
Known for
Transformer architecture
2 CareerEvery role we can document, most recent first
- 2023–now3 yrsSakana AICo-founder & CTO
- 2012–202311 yrsGoogleSenior Software Engineer, Research
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