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Llion Jones

Llion Jones

CTO/Co-Founder of Sakana AI

Co-authored "Attention Is All You Need" (2017), pioneered the Transformer architecture

Tokyo, Japan

  • • Co-founder and CTO of Sakana AI, co-authored 2017 "Attention Is All You Need" paper introducing Transformers
  • • Left Google Research after 10+ years to co-found Sakana AI in Japan (2023)
  • • TED AI 2025 keynote speaker, leads Sakana's "continuous thought machine" project (NeurIPS spotlight)