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Llion JonesResearcher
Sakana AI
Co-founder and CTO
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David Ha
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Co-founder and CEO at Sakana AI
Ha is the co-founder and CEO of Sakana AI, a Tokyo lab he started in 2023 with former Google colleague Llion Jones to pursue nature-inspired and evolutionary approaches to AI. He earlier led Google Brain's research in Japan — known for creative work on world models and generative design — and was previously a rates trader at Goldman Sachs.
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